John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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We will continue our meeting in public session. The first item is the minutes of the meeting from 9 and 11 October. Are the minutes agreed? Agreed. On matters arising from the minutes, last week some members discussed CIE and its report. A report was to come back from the Comptroller and Auditor General. We raised issues with the Department on expenditure. The clerk assures me he will report back on the matter for next week's meeting.

We will finalise the final report on the hearings on the HSE in the course of next week. We will ask the HSE for information on the new drugs deal that has been agreed since the meeting in order that information on it can be included in the report. I will ask the clerk to write to the HSE to expedite the information.

Since our meeting on 11 October 2012 we have received correspondence from Accounting Officers, Robert Watt, Secretary General, forwarding the minute of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to the Committee of Public Accounts on VAT costs at the National Aquatic Centre. We should set that aside for consideration at another meeting. We deferred correspondence on the National Aquatic Centre from various meetings. It comes under the 3C.1 heading. I bring it to Deputy McDonald’s attention that we are noting and publishing that correspondence.