Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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I am sure the commission of investigation will ensure it is included in the terms of reference. That is all I will say.

No. 3 is correspondence received for today's meeting. No. 343A is a briefing document from the Department of Education and Skills. We will note that. No. 346A is the opening statement from the Secretary General. We will note that.

Category B comprises follow-up correspondence received from Accounting Officers and Ministers arising from previous meetings. Nos. 300B (i-iii) and 331B are correspondence dated 17 February 2017 and 8 March 2017 from the Secretary General of the Department of Defence, Mr. Maurice Quinn.

This is a follow-up to the appearance of the Department before the committee on 26 January and a subsequent information request. That was held over from our last meeting. Having examined the reply, there are a number of questions I believe we need answered. I propose that we ask the secretariat to draft a letter and if any member wishes to have an input to the letter, he or she should please contact the secretariat. It was in to talk about the sale of the Government jet in Savannah when it was there at that time. A number of issues have been brought to my attention which I wish to put in writing to the Secretary General. If anyone else has something to include in the letter, he or she should contact the secretariat as the letter will be sent in the coming days. Is that agreed? Agreed.

No. 336B is correspondence dated 6 March 2017 from Ms Niamh O'Donoghue, Secretary General of the Department of Social Protection, providing a breakdown of payments on the free travel scheme. We agreed to note and publish that. Is that agreed? Agreed. We might send a reminder to the Secretary General to submit information to the committee that we requested on the Social Insurance Fund or the redundancy fund in terms of amounts that had not been collected. I do not recall the exact title. The information is months overdue.