Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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We will take matter that into consideration. It might be a separate meeting from the one with the Accounting Officers. If we require a number of Accounting Officers on the day, they must all be present. We cannot have a liaison officer in place because that would mean we would continue to have a lack of transparency.

The next item is correspondence. There are three categories, the first of which is category A. The first item is Nos. 1621A and 1624, correspondence received from Ms Ann-Marie Walsh, Office of Public Works, enclosing the briefing document for today’s meeting, including information requested by the committee. We will note and publish the correspondence. Is that agreed? Agreed.

No. 1632A is correspondence received from the Office of Public Works, enclosing the opening statement for today’s meeting. We will note and publish the correspondence.

Category B is correspondence received from Accounting Officers and/or Ministers and follow-up to Committee of Public Accounts meetings and other items for publishing. We held over a number of items from last week’s meeting. I propose that we continue to hold them over until we work them into our work programme. They include No. 1482B, correspondence received from Mr. Robert Watt; Nos. 1486 and 1566, correspondence received from Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú on Kildare Wicklow ETB; No. 1490, correspondence received from Mr. Stephen Blake, government accounting unit; No. 1502, correspondence received from Mr. Fergal Costello, Department of Rural and Community Development; and No. 1510B, correspondence, dated 9 August 2018, received from Mr. Robert Watt, Secretary General, Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, enclosing a minute from the previous meeting; No. 1513, correspondence received from Mr. Ciarán Breen of the State Claims Agency; and Nos. 1526, 1528 and 1530, correspondence received from the HSE. They have all been published, but we are holding them over because the correspondence is so detailed. Some of it is very extensive.