Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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Then we will note and publish that letter from Teagasc. Okay. The next item is correspondence, dated 19 October 2017, from Mr. Aidan O'Driscoll, Secretary General, Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, providing information as requested by the committee on the foal levy and impediments to basing the levy on the actual amount paid by the breeder rather than a standard nomination fee. I have not had an opportunity to study this. This has come before us on three or four occasions. I propose we hold over consideration of this until the next meeting. Is that agreed? Agreed. I will list it for correspondence the next day when we have had time to consider it.

The next item is correspondence No. 828C, dated 18 October 2017, from Deputy Mary Lou MacDonald, forwarding correspondence from a nursing home in County Dublin. The correspondent appears to feel that they have been treated unfairly by both the Health Information and Quality Authority, HIQA, and the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF. The Deputy will understand it is not the job of the Committee of Public Accounts to intervene in the individual case.