Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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The Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, is present as a permanent witness to the committee. He is joined today by Ms Maureen Mulligan, deputy director of audit.

Are the minutes of the meeting of 22 March agreed? Agreed. I have not been notified of any apologies. We will deal with matters arising as we discuss the work programme.

We will now deal with correspondence received. First, we will deal with category A, briefing documents and opening statements in respect of today's meetings. Correspondence No. 1206A was received from Ms Katherine Licken, Secretary General, Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht. This is her opening statement. We will note and publish that. Correspondence No. 1117 is the briefing document also from Ms Licken which we received. We will note and publish that.

We now move to correspondence from category B, which is correspondence from Accounting Officers and Ministers and follow-up to PAC meetings and other items for publication. The first is No. 1185B from Mr. Neil McDermott, System Funding, The Higher Education Authority, providing an update in relation to St. Angela's College Sligo Limited and its incorporation with NUI Galway. We will note and publish that.

No. 1186B is from Professor Brian Norton, president, Dublin Institute of Technology, dated 20 March 2018. The item provides details requested by the committee on €3.16 million of non-compliant procurement which came to light when we were looking at DIT's annual accounts. If nobody has any question on that we can note it and move on. We will note that.

No. 1192B is from Mr. Mark Griffin, Secretary General, Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment, dated 22 March 2018. This is follow-up information requested at our meeting on 9 November 2017. A note is included on EU rulings in relation to landfill sites and an update on the number of landfill sites and their remediation status. It has been several months since the information was requested. We will put the information up on the screen. A document was to be attached. Did we get an attachment? Perhaps I missed it. I am informed that we wrote only relatively recently. In the correspondence there is reference to a document being attached. Does Mr. McCarthy know if we got it?