John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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Are the minutes of the meeting of 12 June 2014 agreed? Agreed.

No. 3 is correspondence received since our meeting of Thursday, 12 June 2014. No. 3A is correspondence from Accounting Offices and-or Ministers. No. 3A.1 is correspondence dated 10 June 2014 from the Secretary General, Department of Education and Skills, in relation to matters arising from our meeting on 15 May 2014, to be noted and published. This correspondence relates to CIT and other matters. As a further report from the Department of Education and Skills remains outstanding, we will hold that correspondence until the full response has been received. Members can then discuss it. No. 3A.2 is correspondence received on 10 June 2014 from Mr. Martin Whelan regarding social housing arising from our meeting on 29 May, to be noted and published.

No. 3B.1 is correspondence dated 15 April 2014 from an anonymous source regarding Kilmainham Estates Office, to be noted. A response on the issues raised is awaited from the HSE.

No. 3B.2 is correspondence dated 18 June 2014 from Ms Mellissa English, Parliamentary Legal Adviser, regarding a request from the committee to seek legal advice in respect of two applications for compellability, to be noted. Arising out of this reply, we will now ask the Office of the Parliamentary Legal Adviser to assist the committee in putting together a robust response to the two letters we received from the Committee on Procedure and Privileges last week.