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

At the request of the broadcasting and recording services, members are requested to ensure their mobile phones are turned off completely or switched to airplane, safe or flight mode, depending on their device, for the duration of the meeting. It is not sufficient to just put them on silent mode, as this will maintain interference with the broadcasting system. Apologies have been received from Deputy Coppinger.

No. 1 is consideration of the Revised Estimates for Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government; Vote 16 - Valuation Office; and Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority. I welcome the Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, the Ministers of State, Deputies Damien English and John Paul Phelan, and their officials. The Dáil ordered on 14 December 2017 that the Revised Estimates be referred to the committee for consideration. The purpose of the meeting is to consider the Revised Estimates and the provision of information regarding the outputs and impacts of programme expenditures. As previously agreed, we will begin with Vote 34 and then move to Votes 16 and 23. I will call the programmes and invite questions under each for Vote 34. Members will be called in the order in which they indicated.

I call the Minister to make his opening statement.