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

Financial management also has implications for the overall running of the hospital.

We can include that, the issue of the non-compliant procurement of roughly 11% of the non-pay expenditure and a breakdown of what kind of services and goods were procured, how much and who was invoiced for it. Is that agreed? Agreed.

I wish to note that Deputy Colm Burke is attending this meeting remotely and that Deputies Marc Ó Cathasaigh, Verona Murphy and Cormac Devlin are also in attendance.

Are the accounts and financial statements agreed? They are agreed. As usual, the list of accounts and financial statements will be published as part of the minutes of this committee.

The next business is correspondence. As previously agreed, items that that were not flagged for discussion will be dealt with in accordance with the proposed actions that have been circulated. Decisions taken by the committee on correspondence are recorded in the minutes of the committee's meetings and will be published on its web page.

The first category is category A. No. 2433A is from Inland Fisheries Ireland and is dated 1 March. It provides briefing material for engagement with the Department, which has now been deferred to a future date. I propose that we defer consideration of this item until the rescheduled meeting with Inland Fisheries Ireland. We have said our piece on what we want on this matter and the committee is clear on that. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Category B is correspondence from Accounting Officers and Ministers, follow-up material from previous meetings of the committee and other items for publication. No. 2427B is correspondence from the Department of Transport and is dated 26 February. It provides requested information on the removal of the PFAS chemical at Dublin Airport. The correspondence states that the committee's request for a briefing has been forwarded to the Dublin Airport Authority, DAA, for further response. It is proposed to note and publish this item. Is that agreed? Agreed. Deputy Paul McAuliffe has an interest in this matter.