Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

That is okay. I know it is not in the overall budget negotiations but an update at some stage would be fine.

That concludes this part of the session. I thank Mr. Murphy and the officials for coming here today to engage with the committee during a particularly busy period for the Department. On behalf of the committee, I thank the officials for their engagement with us in general. In 2012, this committee scrutinised approximately 100 EU proposals and the Department would have given us briefing notes on many of them. We further scrutinised and delivered reports on 12 proposals. There was much work involved and we thank the officials for that. We also had three pre-Council meetings. I am conscious of the comments made that we are a bit behind with this report but I stressed that we felt it was better to have pre-Council meetings as well. We look forward to inviting the officials back after the Presidency when they will update us on the developments and achievements during that time.