John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein)

Do other members have any comments or queries at this stage? No. Is it agreed to note the listing of accounts and financial statements? Agreed.

Moving on to correspondence, we will now consider items of correspondence which have been received from Accounting Officers in Government bodies. These items were received between 10 July and 31 August. The committee has agreed to note and publish the following items.

No. R0203 is correspondence from Mr. Martin O'Sullivan, deputy director of the Arts Council, in response to the committee’s request for further information. This was raised at a previous meeting where Deputies McAuliffe and Neville had some reservations or further questions. Maybe we can defer that until they are present at next week's meeting. Is that agreed? Agreed.

No. R0267 is correspondence received from Mr. Ken Spratt, Secretary General of the Department of Transport, regarding Westport Coast Guard station.

No. R0268 is correspondence received from Ms Lucy Nugent, chief executive of CHI, providing an update to the committee regarding non-compliant procurement disclosed in the 2023 financial statements of Children's Health Ireland. That was flagged by Deputy Farrelly. Does Deputy Farrelly wish to speak to that?