Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We have a meeting scheduled with the representatives of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board after the Easter break. The key people from the HSE will have to be here as part of that process. We just find that the paediatric hospital board is well down the pecking order in terms of where the decisions get made. That was the main item of correspondence.

The next item is No. 2101B, from Ms Rhonda Evans, communications manager, National Paediatric Hospital Development Board, dated 10 April 2019. This is in response to our request to publish the Mazars report on the preliminary observations on the construction of the national children's hospital. The board has published this document and it is available on its website. We have discussed it before. It is just a matter of allowing us to publish it formally. PwC was involved in November and a Mazars report on costs was issued in December. PwC is to report again in February. Professional consultants are being brought in month by month at this rate.

The next item is No. 2102B, received from Mr. Crónan Goodman, Office of the Secretary General, Department of Justice and Equality, providing material on the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service and the Reception and Integration Agency. This was provided in hard copy at the meeting last week. We discussed it at length at the meeting. We are just formally noting it.

The next item is No. 2103B from Mr. John Conlon, assistant secretary, Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, providing an evaluation of the JobPath scheme. At our meeting on 29 November 2018, the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection undertook to forward the report to the committee when it was completed. The evaluation, which was a collaboration between the Department and the OECD, concludes that the JobPath scheme has been successful in helping jobseekers not only to secure employment but to improve earnings in employment. We will note and publish this. We referred to the JobPath issue in our interim report. The two documents we are publishing may well be in the public domain at this stage. Members may comment as they see fit.