Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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I thank the Deputy. We will request that.

That concludes our consideration of the correspondence for this week.

Moving on to the work programme, at our next meeting, on 30 March, we will engage with the Department of Rural and Community Development in regard to its appropriation accounts for 2021 and chapter 6 of the Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2021, relating to central government funding of the local authorities. That Department has been administering significant grant funding, so there may be a number of areas of interest to Deputies. If there are, they might submit them to the clerk.

On 20 April, we will resume our meeting with the Central Bank, the Department of Finance and Revenue regarding the insurance compensation fund and the Comptroller and Auditor General's section 2 report on the unauthorised release of funds from the Central Fund.

The members will be happy to know that the Governor of the Central Bank and the Secretary General of the Department have confirmed attendance. We will engage with An Bord Pleanála on 27 April regarding the 2021 financial statements.

At last week's meeting, we agreed to schedule a meeting with the HSE to examine the Comptroller and Auditor General's special report on the emergency procurement of ventilators by the HSE, which was published recently. The National Treatment Purchase Fund and waiting lists will also be on the agenda. There are a large number of important items but I would give a word of caution. We have discussed before the difficulty of loading the HSE agenda too much. I agree with putting the items discussed earlier on for clarification, but if there is something else that members want on it, please flag it up.