John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I know that the secretariat tracks the letters we send and receive. It might do no harm to take stock over the Christmas period.

The next item on our agenda is reports, statements and accounts received since our meeting on 6 December. No. 4.1 is the Department of Social and Family Affairs - social insurance fund - financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2011. No. 4.2 is the financial statesments for County Longford VEC for the year ended 31 December 2011. No. 4.3 is the financial statesments for the Family Support Agency for the year ended 31 December 2011. No. 4.4 is financial statements of the Equality Authority for the year ended 31 December 2011. No. 4.5 is the financial statements for Waterways Ireland for the year ended 31 December 2011. No. 4.6 is the financial statements for County Offaly VEC for the year ended 31 December 2011. The committee will review the social insurance fund when it examines the Vote for the Department of Social Protection in the new year.

The next item is our work programme. If members have any view on it or wish it to be changed in any way, they should contact the clerk and we will accommodate them. If a member is listed to be a contributor at one of our meetings and he or she wishes to change - this is for the benefit of our newest recruit - it is only a matter of discussing it with the clerk and the other members and we can then make the necessary arrangements. The work schedule which has been drawn up will take us from January to St. Patrick's Day.

The next item is the HSE report, a draft of which was circulated yesterday. I do not know if members have had an opportunity to read it, but if there are amendments they wish to make, they may notify the clerk of them. We will probably finalise the report in private session on Thursday next and leave publication until after Christmas. There is nothing urgent in the report which we need to address. If members have difficulties with the report or they wish to amend it, they should notify the clerk. We will conclude our business on the report on Thursday next.

We will proceed to agree the agenda for next Thursday's meeting which is due to commence at 10 a.m. with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade on Irish Aid. The agenda will be chapter 19, official development assistance; Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Vote 29 - international co-operation. Was a note on the visit to Mozambique circulated?