John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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The first item is the minutes of the meetings of 15 and 20 November. Are the minutes agreed? Agreed. As there are no matters arising therefrom, we will move to correspondence received from Accounting Officers and Ministers since our meeting of Thursday, 15 November 2012.

No. 3A.1 is correspondence dated 15 and 19 November 2012 from Mr. Kieran Coughlan, Secretary General, Houses of the Oireachtas service, providing information requested by the committee at its meeting of 23 October 2012. The correspondence is to be noted and published.

No. 3A.2 is correspondence dated 12 October 2012 from the Health Service Executive with information regarding the Government review of allowances. The correspondence is to be noted and published.

No. 3A.3 is correspondence dated 15 November 2012 from Mr. Ray Mitchell, parliamentary and regulatory affairs division of the Health Service Executive, forwarding observations regarding the committee's draft report on the Health Service Executive. The correspondence is to be noted. Work will proceed on finalising this report prior to launching it in early December.

No. 3A.4 is correspondence dated 19 November 2012 from Mr. Ray Mitchell, parliamentary and regulatory affairs division of the Health Service Executive, providing further information requested by the committee at its meeting of 9 October 2012. The correspondence is to be noted and published.

No. 3A.5 is correspondence dated 19 November 2012 from Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú re providing further information requested by the committee at its meeting of 24 October 2012. The correspondence is to be noted and published.

No. 3A.6 is correspondence dated 20 November 2012 from Mr. John Moran, Secretary General of the Department of Finance, providing further information requested by the committee at its meeting of 7 June 2012 regarding selection of auditors in the Irish banks. The correspondence is to be noted and published.

There is further correspondence entered into between the Chairman and Mr. Robert Watt, Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. There are two letters and, for completeness, I intend to publish them. I will make them available to members first.

No. 3B is individual correspondence and-or complaints. No. 3B.1 is correspondence dated 23 October 2012 from Mr. Bernie Lloyd, Windmill Residents Group, County Wexford, re proposed courthouse complex. The correspondence is to be noted. We will get a note on the issue raised from the Office of Public Works, OPW, and from the Courts Service. This is correspondence that came directly to me and it contained a video of photographs and so forth. Is only the OPW involved?