Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The health service has what is called the national incident management system, NIMS. We need to know whether there is a similar system in other State bodies. The State Claims Agency handles all these cases when push comes to shove. It comes under the NTMA, which happens to come under the Department of Finance rather than the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. The Deputy's point is, however, right. We will do a little bit of research to see what information we can get in respect of the State Claims Agency and we can decide what information we need before it comes back before the committee. We are proposing to deal with the Department of Justice and Equality and that chapter in the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on 4 April. We are going to write to the Prison Service in the meantime and if we are not happy with the replies we can consider putting it on the work programme for that day. Until we get information we cannot jump to that conclusion. We are moving the meeting with the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board to 11 April, because the report scheduled for the end of March should be out at that stage. We will then move straight on to the State Claims Agency for our next meeting after that. We have agreed that we will also have the Department of Children and Youth Affairs before the committee.

While Deputy Cullinane was out, we mentioned his item of correspondence in respect of Harold's Cross. That is in our system. We had correspondence on the issue last autumn. I know that it has appeared in the media again. I am asking the secretariat to tell us precisely where we are in that regard. We will then action the issue for the next meeting. That was agreed in the Deputy's absence.

The last thing I want to say before we briefly suspend is that the Comptroller and Auditor General issued a special report on Ireland's transactions with the EU in 2017 yesterday. It will be circulated and we will discuss it, perhaps on the day on which we will have the Department of Finance before us. We all know that in recent years we have become a net contributor to the EU. The report deals with that. I have not had an opportunity to study the report. Members can have a look at it. In the public interest and for the public's information, it is no harm for it to be seen. We will schedule discussion of it for the day on which the Department of Finance will be before us. Would that be reasonable?