Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The committee is joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, as a permanent witness to this committee, and he is accompanied today by Mr. John Crean. Apologies have been received from Deputy Peter Burke.

I welcome Deputy Pat Deering to the Committee of Public Accounts and we look forward to working with him. Deputy Deering replaces Deputy Josepha Madigan. Unfortunately, because of a family bereavement, the Deputy is not able to be with us today.

I want to hold over the minutes until the next meeting to have a review of them. We will move straight to the next item, which is correspondence.

Correspondence Nos. 817A and 818 are briefing documents, including an opening statement from Tusla for today's meeting. We can note and publish that.

Next item is Nos. 822A (i)to (iv), which are the opening statement and supporting documentation from the Health Information and Quality Authority, HIQA, for today's meeting, and we have received a revised opening statement this morning. Have members received the revised opening statement that arrived this morning? I want to demote yesterday's statement from the committee documentation because it has been replaced by the opening statement from this morning.