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

That is social housing.

Can we agree and note the listing of accounts and financial statements? Agreed. As usual, the list of accounts and financial statements will be published as part of the minutes.

Members will be aware that the Comptroller and Auditor General presented a report, prepared in accordance with the provisions under section 2(7) of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Amendment) Act 1993, to the Dáil on 21 December in relation to an unauthorised release of funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer. This is on our agenda for discussions after correspondence and the work programme. I suggest, if people are happy to do so, we will leave dealing with it until then.

We will move on to correspondence. As previously agreed, items that are not items of discussion for this meeting will continue to be dealt with in accordance with the proposed actions that have been circulated. Decisions taken by the committee on the correspondence will be recorded on the minutes of the committee's meetings and published on the web page.

The first category which members have flagged is category B - correspondence from Accounting Officers and Ministers as a follow-up to committee meetings. I propose to deal with these items today, one way or another, because we do not want correspondence being pushed out for a number of weeks. They were held over from our meeting on 15 December 2022.

No. R1621B from Mr. Ray Mitchell, assistant national director of the HSE, dated 12 December 2022, provides information requested by the committee arising from our consideration of the report entitled Funding and Deficit Challenges in Voluntary Disability Services Agencies. Members will recall that this concerns section 38 and section 39 organisations. It was flagged for discussion at our meeting on 15 December by Deputies Catherine Murphy, Munster and Carthy but was held over to allow members more time to review it. It has not been flagged for discussion at today's meeting. I propose to note and publish this correspondence. Is that agreed? Agreed. Do members want to add the funding of voluntary disability services agencies to the agenda at one of our forthcoming meetings with the HSE? Let us be mindful of our previous conversations with the HSE. It is such a big outfit, covering so many different areas, that we found in the past when trying to deal with everything that we did not do so effectively. We decided during discussions of the committee that in future, we would try to narrow our engagements and get a focus. Allowing some leeway, perhaps we will pencil in one of those visits by the HSE.