Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We will have to end the meeting now, given the vote in the Chamber. I apologise to the Senator. I thank the witnesses for assisting the committee today. If there is any information they have committed to forwarding, please send it to the committee within a fortnight.

There being no other business, I wish to say something. I want to hear from all the people who attended the committee at previous meetings. The Department of public expenditure was here on 21 May. We got some information from it but it was inadequate. We want it here by next Tuesday. Uisce Éireann was here on 28 May. We have had no reply from Uisce Éireann four weeks on. That is totally unacceptable. On 11 June, the Department of Transport, Transport Infrastructure Ireland and the National Transport Authority appeared before the committee and we asked them questions, but we have had no reply to date.

I am telling the witnesses who were at previous meetings that they are hereby summoned to appear before the committee on 9 July to provide the information they were asked for weeks ago. They will be excused from attending provided that we receive the information by 2 July, which is a week from today. All of those bodies have one week to provide the information requested of them several weeks ago. It is a disgrace that they cannot reply to simple questions they were asked three or four weeks ago. If they do not have the information by next week, each witness who attended those previous meetings will be summoned to the meeting on 9 July to explain why they did not provide the information to this Oireachtas committee. If they cannot deliver a simple reply to an Oireachtas committee after three or four weeks, God help us in terms of the national delivery plan. The message is loud and clear.