Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Sections 38 and 39 arrangements are on the agenda for our meeting with the HSE this afternoon. Deputies can ask about that and we can seek that information. It has been specifically noted as an item we will raise. We will ask the secretariat to publish No. 2587 with any personal information redacted because it is useful to put that out there.

The next item of correspondence, No. 2593, is a letter from an individual concerning the public services card. We discussed previous correspondence from this individual on 14 November and advised the individual accordingly. We provided details of who was at the meeting in question, as requested. We will provide the information requested now that this correspondent has replied seeking further information.

The next item of correspondence, No. 2594, is a letter from me, dated 13 November, providing a reply to a parliamentary question on carbon taxes for the information of the committee. On foot of that, we might write to the Revenue Commissioners seeking details of the carbon tax collected under various headings in 2019. We will request those figures as soon as possible when Revenue has the year-end figures in January. Revenue always has the figures very shortly after the end of the year. We will also request Revenue's projections for 2020 if we have not already asked for them. We will discuss carbon tax collection and the use of those funds as soon as possible. We will request those in January. We will write to the Revenue Commissioners now asking for this information. Revenue supplied information which was up to date at the time in response to that parliamentary question, but that was not at the year end. That concludes our correspondence.

The next item for discussion is the financial statements and accounts received since the last meeting. They are being projected on the screen now.