Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The select committee will be meeting later this morning and this afternoon. The Minister of State, Deputy Cannon, will be there to discuss the Estimates. We will mention to him the concerns raised by the witnesses. He is also due to appear at a meeting of the committee in the new year in regard to the Indecon report. The contributions of the witnesses will provide very good material for our meeting with him. If there are developments or issues of which the committee ought to be aware in advance of that meeting, the witnesses should send any relevant material to the clerk to the committee to be automatically be circulated to all members. The Tánaiste, Deputy Coveney, will appear before the committee on 13 December and we will raise with him the issues highlighted by the witnesses, as well as with the Minister of State, Deputy Cannon, at the meeting in the new year.

Deputy Barrett wishes to make a brief comment.