Micheál Martin
Ceist:162 Mr. Martin asked the Minister for Education when an item of correspondence which was the subject of a report in the Irish Independent of 20 November 1996 and which was sent to her Department by a public service union, was actually received in her Department; the sections of her Department to which the letter was referred; the date on which a reply issued; the arrangements which the Secretary of her Department has in place for the tracking of correspondence addressed to him; the investigations, if any, she has initiated into the reported failure through inadvertence in respect of such correspondence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23128/96]