Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

We can get an update on that. I will have to move on.

I propose that we defer the rest of the correspondence and the work programme until the next business meeting of the committee. Is that agreed? Agreed.

On 13 January, we will be examining the Office of Government Procurement 2019 Appropriation Account. Usually, such meetings are on a Thursday. As the Accounting Office is unable to attend on the Thursday, I propose that we switch it around and hold the public hearing on that matter on the Wednesday and hold the business meeting on the Thursday. Is that agreed? Agreed. That gets us started into the new year. There is a table of the work programme from there.

Before I move to any other business, as Chairperson, I wish everybody on the committee, the staff, the Comptroller and Auditor General, the Comptroller and Auditor General's staff, the Comptroller and Auditor General liaison person and the various people who have helped the committee a happy Christmas - Nollaig shona mór daoibh.

Hopefully, in the new year - 13 January is our first meeting - we will get back into the work of the committee. We were late starting this year with elections, etc. Nearly nine months were lost. In the three months we have had, however, we have managed to find our feet and get going again. I recognise the work of the staff as well in assisting us in doing that.

As there are no other issues members want to raise, we are adjourning until Wednesday, 13 January, when we will engage with the Office of Government Procurement.