Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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We will have to be conscious of that and try not to be deflected on the day.

The next item is correspondence No. 370C from an individual on 22 March regarding broad allegations of an investigation into Teagasc officials. The secretariat is currently reviewing all correspondence concerning this matter. The correspondence had been submitted at a previous PAC. None of us is personally familiar with it, only what we have seen quite recently, so I have asked the secretariat to go back to last year's PAC and see what is on file so that we can then get a summary. When we receive all that we can consider the matter further at that stage.

The next items are correspondence Nos. 372C, 375C and 376C. These are from Deputy Cullinane. The first one is requesting the PAC meet with the Secretary General of the Department of Justice and Equality regarding the administrative errors surrounding the fixed-charge penalty issue. We will deal with each of these first.