Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I thank Ms O'Reilly and Mr. Rafferty for coming before the committee. We will go into private session momentarily to deal with one or two matters. The Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform is due to meet at 5.30 p.m. with the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, but I have got word that he will not be here until 6 p.m. We will, however, still meet at 5.30 p.m., call the meeting to order and then suspend until 6 p.m.

The other matter relates to the comments of Deputy Sean Fleming this morning on the report of Ms O'Reilly to the committee this afternoon. I will speak to the clerk to determine where the interface is with regard to the Bill and the secrecy clauses. We may need to separate these issues in our report, but we will work that matter into the agenda for next week.