Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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We are agreed that we will have to suspend for a period to allow members to read the documents. We will decide what to do in a few minutes. I still have not seen the documents. I am aware that they arrived at some stage, but I have been travelling. Most of us have been on the move and have not been in our offices to print off the documentation in order to have copies at this meeting. It is only being copied and circulated as we speak. We will come back to that at the end of this session.

The next item is No. 13001A, the opening statement from Mr. Bill Prasifka, chief executive officer of the Medical Council, and Dr. Audrey Dillon, chairperson of the ethics and professionalism committee and a member of the Medical Council. It includes the Medical Council Guide to Professional Conduct and Ethics for Registered Medical Practitioners and supplementary information related to the guide for the information of the committee. We will note and publish this will come back to it later.

Correspondence item B is from Ministers or following up issues raised at previous Committee of Public Accounts meetings.

The next item is No. 1277B from Mr. John McCarthy, Secretary General of the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, dealing with many questions we put to him at our meeting on 19 April. We have now received a response.

I think we need to hold some of the routine correspondence over until next week.