Catherine Noone (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Welcome to our viewers. I request silence in the Gallery and within the committee when members are speaking. I really hope everyone will respect that request; it is important that no matter what people say or how much disagreement there is, we allow them to speak. We will not be speaking at length on any one matter because we agreed last week that we have had our debate on the substantive issues for the most part.

Obviously there will be some discussion but everyone must be reasonable about repetition, etc.

I shall now deal with the usual matters. The draft minutes for the meeting of 6 December have been circulated. Are they agreed? Agreed. Are there any matters arising? No.

We have received two items of correspondence. Is it agreed that we note them? Agreed.