Vice Chairman:

Apologies have been received from Deputies Dara Calleary, Pat Deering and John Paul Phelan. On behalf of the committee I send our congratulations to Deputy John Paul Phelan on his appointment as Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government.

No. 1 on the agenda is the minutes of the meeting of 14 June. Are they agreed? Agreed. Are there any matters arising from those minutes?