John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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Are the minutes of the meetings of 22 and 23 January 2014 agreed to? Agreed. There are matters arising from the minutes. At last week's meeting the committee agreed it would seek information from the Department of Justice and Equality and the Health Service Executive, HSE, on funding to the Rehab Group. The Rehab Group also receives funding from SOLAS, formerly FÁS, and that body has been asked to supply details regarding that funding. We received documentation late yesterday from the Department and the HSE. This was circulated to members. We can examine these issues with the public bodies and Rehab and we should put this on our work programme. It is an important matter and we need to give all parties involved, including the committee, time to prepare evidence so the expenditure of public moneys can be fully examined by the committee. Not all information is in yet so we can pursue that and present it when that arrives.