Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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Okay. Is that agreed? Agreed.

The next category is correspondencefrom and related to private individuals and any other correspondence.

Several items have been held over from our meeting of 9 February. The first is No. 1699 from the clerk of the Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport and Media and dated 23 January 2023. The joint committee requests the Committee of Public Accounts share with it any response received from RTÉ regarding the RTÉ production, Toy Show the Musical, so it may consider matters further. It is proposed to note this item and furnish the joint committee with previous and future correspondence received from RTÉ on the matter. Is that agreed? Agreed.

The next item is No. 1723 from Deputy Carol Nolan and dated 30 January. It is a request for copies of the committee's correspondence as follows: No. 1574 from Deputy Hourigan, No. 1577 from former member of the committee Deputy Carroll MacNeill, now a Minister of State, and No. 1601 from Deputy Carthy dated 24 November 2022. Members will remember that batch of three that came. The items concern the alleged operation of a body as a charity that is not registered as such. We wrote to the Charities Regulator and received a response and we then requested further information. This further response is awaited. As the correspondence Deputy Nolan is requesting was received from the Deputies, who in turn received it from an individual, I propose the committee write to Deputy Nolan and advise her to request the correspondence directly from the Deputies concerned. Is that agreed? Agreed.

The next item is No. 1727 is from Deputy Carthy and dated 2 February 2023.It encloses an internal An Bord Pleanála report published in the media. It is proposed to note and publish this item of correspondence. Is that agreed? Agreed. Deputy Carthy is not here but he asked me during this morning's session that we consider this as part of the work programme. Is that agreed? Agreed.

No. 1735 is further correspondence from an individual dated 30 January 2023 regarding expenditure by North Leinster Citizens Information Service. We have considered several items from the individual and previously decided to advise the correspondent the committee may consider the matter further when all proceedings elsewhere are concluded. North Leinster Citizens Information Service is an independent company that operates under an agreement with the Citizens Information Board. The company is a registered charity and is not audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General. Therefore, we do not have powers to compel. It is proposed to inform the correspondent that it is not within this committee’s role to examine the accounts of the North Leinster Citizens Information Service and that the Charities Regulator is the appropriate body for this concern. Is that agreed? Agreed.

That concludes our consideration of correspondence this week.