Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We note that. The next item is the national lottery fund, which has a clear audit opinion. The next is the export guarantee account, for which there was no turnover for 2017. It has a clear audit opinion. Next, the National Training Fund was established to raise the skills of those in employment, to give jobseekers relevant skills and to facilitate lifelong learning, and it has received a clear audit opinion.

The next item is the work programme. We will discuss Deputy Catherine Murphy’s request to invite third parties to the broadband plan to the meeting next week. With regard to meetings, officials of the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection are here today and we thought, if we did not get finished, we would bring them back on 13 December. Next week we have the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment and we will deal with the broadband plan, as well as its Vote. For the following week, which is the last meeting before Christmas, on Thursday, 13 December, the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection was not available to return on that date. A special report has been produced by the Comptroller and Auditor General on school transport, which might be a simple and straightforward issue to deal with on the last day before the Christmas break. That will be the sole item on that day.