Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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The transcript of our comments will be communicated or forwarded to the commission with the documentation we have received. It will then be up to the commission if it wishes to take the matter further.

No. 1,000, dated 28 December 2017, is from Mr. Neil McDermott of the Higher Education Authority and contains information on expenditure on consultants and legal firms by third level institutions.

We have also received correspondence, dated 23 January last, from Mr. McDermott confirming that the HEA has no objections to the committee publishing the previous items. This was before us last week - the level of payments and engagements to the various consultants - and committee members were surprised at how much was involved. We had been asked by the HEA not to publish it. We did not accept the rationale for that. It has now come back stating that it has no objections to the committee publishing and we will note and publish this. Deputy Cullinane indicated he wants to speak on it.