Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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No other items of correspondence are before us for consideration today.

The following engagements are confirmed: the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth on 2 June; 9 June is a non-sitting week; and the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board will be on 16 June.

As previously agreed, we will engage with the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage on 23 June to examine its oversight of local government expenditure of central Government funds. The Department has confirmed its availability for that meeting.

At our meeting last week we also agreed to schedule a meeting with An Bord Pleanála. That would leave two meeting slots between now and the summer recess. There are a number of possible items for then. In terms of matters reported upon by the Comptroller and Auditor General, there are a number of outstanding matters for examination with the Department of Education.

With respect to the Department of Education, there is the Comptroller and Auditor General's Special Report 112 on financial governance and reporting in the education and training boards, as well as chapters on the management of school estates and the purchase of sites for school provision. Separately, there is also an outstanding chapter from this year on the assessment and collection of insurance compensation fund levies, which presents an opportunity to engage with the Governor of the Central Bank and chairman of the Revenue Commissioners.

On Deputy Catherine Murphy's proposal to examine the latest accounts of the Department of Foreign Affairs and the three-year reform programme for the passport service, if we are bringing in the Governor of the Central Bank regarding the insurance compensation fund, which is a single issue, I suggest we also discuss the issue of credit unions with him. We dealt with this matter recently and there are outstanding issues concerning the credit union movement. The Central Bank is the regulator and the oversight body for credit unions.