John O'Mahony (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The purpose of this meeting is to engage with the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Rabbitte, on the forthcoming meetings of the EU Council of Telecommunications and Energy Ministers. On behalf of the committee, I welcome the Minister and his officials. I will skip the housekeeping rules on defamation because I think we are all aware of them at this stage and there will be no problems in that regard. I invite the Minister to make his opening statement.