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

We will move on to 9 May. As I said earlier, we now have an Accounting Officer, Mr. Kilcommins, so we will engage with the University of Limerick about financial statements. I note the president will be absent so the chancellor has been requested to attend, as have representatives of the Higher Education Authority, the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science.

On 16 May, we will engage with the Department of Education on the following areas of interest that have been flagged: running costs and demand management of schools; school building programmes; school transport; disposal of assets of religious orders; and Caranua.

On 23 May, we will engage with the Department of Defence, which we have never had before the committee during this mandate, on Vote 36 – Defence, and chapter 2 of the Comptroller and Auditor General's annual report, which I highlighted, that relates to stock management in the Defence Forces.

On 30 May, we will meet with the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board regarding its 2022 financial statements.

On 13 June, we will engage with the Office of Public Works, OPW, on Vote 13 – Office of Public Works. I propose that we flag the proposed national children’s science museum project as an area of interest for this meeting. It has come up before and we have not been able to address it. I mentioned it to the clerk yesterday.