Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

No. 2048, dated 8 March 2019, is from Mr. Peter McCarthy, CEO of Enet, and provides information requested by the Committee. We will take it on board as part of our meeting with the Department on broadband. We will publish it because representatives of Enet appeared before the committee and this is a follow-on from that public meeting.

No. 2049 is from Mr. John O'Dwyer, head of regulation at BT Ireland, and provides information requested by the committee in regard to the Analysys Mason report, outlining recommendations. It was discussed at a meeting of the committee and we will take the correspondence on board as part of our forthcoming discussion. We will note and publish the correspondence. It is a follow-on from a previous public meeting of the committee.

No. 2055, dated 5 March, is from an individual and is in regard to a proposed new Garda station in Schull. The individual alleges that €300,000 of repairs was carried out on a building that was less than one year old and that the original contractor may not have been held to account. I propose that we write to the Office of Public Works for a note on the matter. Is that agreed? Agreed.

No. 2056, dated 6 March, is from an individual who has a concern that nurses at KDoc, Kildare and west Wicklow, are being paid in excess of agreed pay scales. I do not think that KDoc falls under the remit of the committee. These GP practice groups do not fall under our remit. The individual states that nurses at the group are being paid in excess of agreed pay scales. If they were being paid less than agreed pay scales, I would be very worried. Mr. McCarthy has not dealt with the funding of out-of-hours GP practice groups.