John Paul Phelan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Apologies have been received from Deputies Michael McGrath, Marc MacSharry and Joan Burton. The first item is the minutes of the last meeting. Are they agreed? Agreed. There are a couple of items of correspondence not included on the agenda as they were received late. There is a submission from the Minister for Finance and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, which we will discuss. We will also discuss Deputy Broughan's letter, if he arrives. There is a letter from Professor Alan Barrett from the Economic and Social Research Institute who has volunteered the services of the ESRI in terms of the work of the committee, which is a welcome. There is another letter from the Irish Tax Institute. I also circulated a brief document.

Will we move on to a discussion on what the Departments submitted in terms of their own document?