Clerk to the Committee:

We need to follow up on a number of issues. We have looked for the details sought by Deputy Eoghan Murphy. I have given Departments until the week of 11 October to come back with the full information. There is another element to it - I am unsure as to whether we will be given access to it - namely, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform’s attitude to each submission. We might want to write to the Minister in that regard and obtain those papers. The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform will be representated at each of the meetings with the Accounting Officers.