John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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No. 3B.5 is correspondence, received on 21 November, from Mr. Edward Stevenson regarding the hepatitis C tribunal. The correspondence is to be noted and a copy forwarded to the Department of Health. The Department confirmed that it was working on the response to Mr. Stevenson's previous correspondence. We will request that this be issued as soon as possible.

No. 3B.6 is correspondence, received on 26 November, from Mr. Brendan Logue, former Registrar of Credit Unions, regarding credit union affairs. The correspondence is to be noted. The committee should hear from Mr. Logue and it can do so in the context of its examination of the accounts of the Credit Institutions Resolution Fund. We are obtaining legal advice on this issue. This item of correspondence was referred to last week because it relates to the Central Bank. The matter of representatives from the bank coming before us was raised by Deputy Shane Ross. If Mr. Logue is prepared to come before us, I propose that we facilitate him in doing so. Is that agreed? Agreed.

The next item is 3C, documents relating to today's meeting. No. 3C.1 is correspondence, received on 26 November, from Mr. Tony O’Brien, director general of the Health Service Executive, HSE, enclosing his opening statement. The correspondence is to be noted and published.

No. 4 is reports, statements and accounts received since our meeting on 21 November. No. 4.1 is the Dublin Docklands Development Authority's 2012 accounts; No. 4.2 is the Environmental Protection Agency's annual report for 2012; and No. 4.3 is the St. Angela's College, Sligo, financial statement for the year ended 31 December 2012. The committee has scheduled a meeting to examine the accounts of the DDDA on 6 February 2014.

The next item is No. 5, the committee's work programme, details of which are on screen. After this meeting we will schedule a meeting with the Department of Health on this issue which we will be discussing later. I understand we must decide whether to bring before us the CEOs of the various hospitals, if that is possible. Is that agreed? Agreed.