Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Department will have a big folder but I hope it will have some guidance notes or operational manuals. We will request documents that summarise or list the key points and guidance for officers on the key issues as well as requesting the large document. I could probably find the document on the Department's website but we will ask the Department to send it to us in the next day or two to give us time to study it before our next meeting. We do not want it to arrive next Wednesday evening. I think we are all happy about that.

No. 2014 is from Mr. John McCarthy, Secretary General, Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, dated 26 February 2019 providing details requested by the committee on housing assistance payments, HAP and other items. We will discuss that when we meet the officials shortly. We will note and publish the document. We will also note No. 2017, a copy of the social housing delivery report for 2018, which we received yesterday from Mr. McCarthy. We will discuss that report with him shortly. We will note and publish this.

Correspondence under the heading C is from private individuals. We received a letter from Deputy David Cullinane, dated 18 February 2019, on Our Lady's Hospice, Harold's Cross, Dublin. The Deputy has momentarily left the room. We have received correspondence on that in recent times. It is on our work programme. We will ask the secretariat to give us an update on this issue, which we dealt with last year and on which there has been recent media coverage.

Nos. 2001 and 2008 are from Deputy Alan Kelly on the Higher Education Authority report on Cork Institute of Technology and certain companies. As mentioned earlier, we received a letter stating the report is being finalised and the HEA will consider it and revert to the committee at that stage.

No. 2004 is a letter from Deputy Jonathan O'Brien in regard to speaking at next week's meeting when officials from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform come before the committee. The Deputy may have thought the meeting was scheduled for last week but it is this week. We will go through our work programme shortly.

No. 2009 is a letter from Deputy O'Connell requesting a number of items to be included in the follow-up information requested from Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board. We will note that. The additional information that Deputy O'Brien asked for in respect of a building in Bray will be included in the request for information.

The next matter is the statements and accounts received.