Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We will put it provisionally on the work programme for now. We will ask the Comptroller and Auditor General to give us an update for next week. It goes without saying that we will note and publish the correspondence.

The next item of correspondence is from Mr. William Beausang, who is an assistant secretary in the Department of Education and Skills, and is dated 18 September 2019. It provides an update on the development and disposal of intellectual property in FeedHenry at Waterford Institute of Technology. We asked the Minister to consider appointing an investigator under the relevant legislation to examine matters raised in the Comptroller and Auditor General's special report No. 104. Mr. Beausang has advised that the Department is considering documents and has set out a number of concerns relating to the management of conflicts of interest. I will summarise this long letter for Deputy Cullinane by saying they have a whole lot of things to look at, and eventually they might do something. They do not say what they are advising.