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

Is the listing of accounts and financial statements agreed? Agreed. As usual, these will be published as part of our minutes.

Moving on to correspondence, three previously agreed items that were not flagged for discussion at today's meeting will be dealt with in accordance with the proposed actions that have been circulated. Decisions taken by the committee in relation to correspondence are recorded in the minutes of the committee’s meetings and published on our webpage.

Five items have been flagged for discussion today. The first category under which items have been flagged is category B, which is correspondence from Accounting Officers and Ministers and follow-up to committee meetings.

No. R2315 B is correspondence from Mr. Robert Watt, Secretary General of the Department of Health, dated 16 January. It provides a response to questions raised by the committee regarding the national children’s hospital. It is proposed to note and publish this item. Is that agreed? Agreed. It is also proposed to hold it over for consideration until next week because departmental officials will be in then. As Mr. Watt is the Accounting Officer, he will also be here on that date. Are members happy enough with that? Agreed.

No. R2318 B is correspondence from the office of the director general of RTÉ, dated 16 January, which provides an update on the McCann FitzGerald report. It is proposed to note and publish this item of correspondence. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Separately, No. R2319 B is from Siún Ní Raghallaigh, the cathaoirleach of the RTÉ board, which is also dated 16 January. It provides an update regarding the Grant Thornton review, which is now out. It is proposed to note and publish this item. In the few minutes I had to look at what has come out over lunchtime, some fairly stark revelations are in that review by any account. The committee will have to revisit the matter. Deputy Murphy wanted to comment on this.