Maria Bailey (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

In accordance with standard procedures agreed by the Committee on Procedure and Privileges for paperless committees, all documentation for the meeting has been circulated to members on the document database. The purpose of today's meeting is to consider the further Revised Estimates for 2017 for the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, referred by the Dáil to this committee on 17 October. I welcome the Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, and the Ministers of State, Deputies Damien English and John Paul Phelan, and all the officials from the Department. As previously agreed by members, the format for today's meeting will see members given five minutes to ask questions, with five minutes for a response. I will call members in the order in which they indicate they wish to speak. In accordance with Standing Order 184, discussion for this part of the meeting should be confined to the items constituting the Supplementary Estimate, which will conclude at 10.15 a.m. Would the Minister like to make an opening statement?