Andrew Doyle (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I may have to suspend the meeting in a moment. I think there is agreement. Perhaps the monthly milestones could be discussed with the Department officials without having to wait for the Minister to be available to discuss the performance indicators. Similarly, with Food Wise 2025 and the implementation groups, perhaps we could get a periodic report on how implementation is working across the sectors. That might be useful for the committee because it would represent an overview. After that, we can get down to the money end of it. Anyway, we need to get at it earlier, unfortunately. The fact that the budget has been brought forward two months has not helped the process either.

I have to suspend the meeting because another vote has been called in the House. Perhaps we can get agreement after the vote. There are four Government Deputies and one Opposition Deputy at the moment. If we had two more Opposition Deputies we could have agreed to move on. However, we cannot get agreement and we have not spoken to the Whips.