Colm Brophy (Dublin South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am conscious that the Minister will return about this in a month to address it extensively. We can continue then. I have one or two issues to raise myself. As Chairman, it would be remiss of me not to make the point which Deputy Lahart has alluded to. We feel that as a committee that when we make a request of officials from the Minister's Department, they should attend, particularly officials who have indicated that they believe they have a report for this committee. We would like that to be noted. We have communicated about this and the committee has raised it on a number of occasions.

One of the areas that I am interested in which we have not touched on at all is the EU multi-annual financial framework, MFF, and its impact on the Irish budget. I do not know what the Minister's thoughts are on Commission proposals. I know it is only a negotiation process but some proposals floating around would have a direct impact on our budget.