Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

We will go back through the committee’s correspondence to Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú. We will ask those questions because there were three specific cases at the end of the process. We will seek that information. In terms of time we have about three or four minutes left. We will go over the allocated two hours after that.

We have had a lot of correspondence today because of the recess. I propose that we push the remaining correspondences to next week. However, I want to deal with the work programme before we conclude the meeting. I will move onto that. We have our second meeting with the HSE on its 2020 financial statements this Thursday morning at 9.30 a.m.

The following week, on 30 September, we will engage with the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, on its 2020 financial statements and special report 111 which concerns NAMA's progress on achievement of its objectives. At the end of the month, the Comptroller and Auditor General will publish the 2020 appropriation accounts which address voted expenditure, including Departments. The Comptroller and Auditor General will also publish the 2020 report on the accounts of the public services at the end of the month and with members' agreement I would suggest that we take time to review those publications closely to prioritise areas for examination in our works programme from November onwards.

On Thursday, 7 October, we are scheduled to engage with the National Treasury Management Agency, NTMA, along with representatives from the State Claims Agency, on its 2020 financial statement. The following week, on 14 October, we are scheduled to engage with Home Building Finance Ireland, HBFI, which Deputy Carthy put forward. I propose that we engage instead with the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications in relation to its 2020 accounts. It will be available and it will include up-to-date expenditure on the national broadband plan. Obviously, this has come up a number of times. The progress and expenditure on that is of concern to members. Some of us have raised it in the Dáil in the recent past, so I propose that, with the members' permission, we engage with the Department on that on 14 October. Is that agreeable to members? Is Deputy Carthy happy enough that we drop his initial proposal?