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

We will ask for that breakdown along with clarification on the points raised by Deputy Murphy.

No. 1922B is from Mr. John Kelly, corporate secretary at the University of Limerick. It is dated 31 May and provides an update regarding the request of the committee in respect of the McKenna report. It is proposed to note and publish this item. Is that agreed? Do members wish to comment on it? We wrote to the office of the president seeking a reply. The letter states "We are currently considering this with our legal advisers, and we hope to revert to the Committee in relation to the request to supply the McKenna report within the next week." The letter is dated 31 May. I hope the reply arrives shortly. We are halfway through June and it has not yet arrived. It is sometimes the case that we might not have a late reply in front of us even though the secretariat received it in the previous day or two. That is not the case here. We should not let it run any more than another week. The university stated that it hoped to revert to the committee with regard to the request for the McKenna report within a week but it has gone nearly ten days over that. We do not want the matter to run on and still be looking for the report in the autumn. There is no reason we should not have the report. It has been commissioned. It is a public body and the report should be available. We will pursue that.

No. 1923B is from Mr. John McKeon, Secretary General of the Department of Social Protection. It is dated 1 June 2023. It provides clarification requested by the committee regarding information provided at the meeting with the Department on 1 December 2022 and related information that was provided in the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 18674/23, dated 20 April 2023. It is proposed to note and publish this item of correspondence. Is that agreed? Thank you. Deputy Catherine Murphy wishes to discuss this matter.