Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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We will keep an eye on it. That was an important issue which came out the last day. The next items are No. 1670 A and 1671 A from the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, dated 18 October, providing briefing information for today's meeting on Vote 34, specifically, details on lands transferred to approved housing bodies, details of publicly owned land, the Rebuilding Ireland home loan, and a note on the funding progress on a county-by-county basis. We will note and publish this.

No. 1680 A is from Mr. John O'Connor, CEO of the Housing Agency, dated 23 October 2018, and it is his opening statement. We will note and publish this.

No. 1681 A is from Mr. John McCarthy, Secretary General of the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, and it is his opening statement. We will note and publish this.

The next category is B, correspondence from Accounting Officers and-or Ministers as a follow-up to the Committee of Public Accounts. We held over the following items and are continuing to hold them over. There are a number of items from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform responding to our previous periodic report. There is detailed correspondence, running to hundreds of pages, from the HSE, following up on our earlier meeting. We held over quite a lot over the summer because we had 100 items to deal with. I propose that for each meeting, we take one chunk and deal with it. I propose that, at the next meeting, we deal with the responses from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform with regard to our previous periodic reports. It was slow to get to us so we do not want to be any slower following up. We will move on and clear a large chunk each time. I will note the reference numbers, which we have noted before. They are Nos. 1482 B, 1486 B, 1490 B, 1502 B, 1510 B, 1513 B, 1526 B, 1528 B, 1530 B, 1538 B, 1560 B and 1561 B. We have held all those over from the previous meeting and we will deal with them as well as we can from the next meeting onwards.