Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The committee is now in public session. We are joined today by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, who is a permanent witness to this committee. He is accompanied by Ms Georgina O'Mahoney.

Apologies have been received from Deputies Marc MacSharry and Josepha Madigan.

The first item on the agenda is the minutes of the meeting of 2 February 2017. Are the minutes agreed? Agreed. I do not think there is anything specific arising from the minutes that we will not cover in the normal course of our work.

The next item is correspondence received. Let us go through the correspondence received since the last meeting. No. 294A is the briefing document from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine for today's meeting. We note and publish that. No. 295A is the opening statement from Mr. Aidan O'Driscoll, Secretary General of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. We will note and publish that.

Category B correspondence is from Accounting Officers and Ministers in follow-up to previous meetings. The first item is correspondence from the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, providing clarification on a couple of points on Project Eagle. This is noted. That letter was from 22 December.

Category C correspondence is next. We will put it up on the screen. It is dated 8 February 2017. It is an e-mail, not a formal letter. It has points of clarification and we will circulate it as quickly as possible. It deals with the dates of the meetings. Did we get the difference between board-----