Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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That will be communicated to the Department of Education and Skills after today's meeting in advance of next week.

That is the reply from the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport. It is being returned to the Department and we will ask for a comprehensive detailed reply.

The next item is 860B, correspondence dated 27 October from Ray Mitchell, parliamentary affairs division of the Health Services Executive, on the membership of the audit committee. There is a new addition to the committee. The committee has sent the details to us. We will note and publish the correspondence.

Next item is correspondence dated 27 October from Martin Shannon, chief executive of IDA Ireland, providing follow-up matters in respect of the meeting on 5 October. The matters covered include the accommodation costs of IDA Ireland centres abroad, grant aid on a county-by-county basis and a note on the independent assessment carried out by the IDA Ireland and the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation. We will note and publish that correspondence.

The next item is correspondence No. 864, dated 27 October, from Michael Nolan, chief executive of Transport Infrastructure Ireland. The correspondence provides a briefing note to the committee, as requested, regarding safety benefit appraisal of the national road scheme. We will note and publish that. It was requested at an earlier meeting.

Correspondence Nos. 865B1 and 865B2 are from Siún Hanrahan and Professor Alex Middleton, co-acting directors of the National College of Art and Design.

The correspondence provides an explanatory note on the status of the financial statements for 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 as well as progress in relation to meeting the requirement to publish financial statements in a timely manner. We will only accept this letter when we receive the accounts. We are still awaiting some of these accounts.