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

Is it agreed that the clerk advise the joint committee that it has this committee’s full support for the motion? Agreed.

This concludes our consideration of correspondence.

Our next item is this committee's work programme. On Thursday we will engage with the Department of Foreign Affairs. Matters for examination include from the 2019 Appropriation Accounts, Vote 27 - International Co-operation and Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade; and from the Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2019, Chapter 8 – Controls over humanitarian assistance funding.

If there are any specific areas of interest that members would like to raise with the Department that are not comprehended by the foregoing, please let the clerk know by close of business tomorrow. It would be even better if members could do that today.

The Higher Education Authority has confirmed its availability for 1 July and the Tax Appeals Commission has confirmed its availability for 8 July.

As I mentioned earlier, we have issued invitations to the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and the Department of Health for our final meeting before the summer recess on Tuesday, 13 July.

I propose that we consider our work programme for the autumn at our next meeting. We need to do that because there is a list, and some members also have suggestions, on which we need to move in the autumn. I also bring to members' attention that the annual accounts from the Departments, audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General, are normally ready in September. We will have a busy autumn schedule. I ask members to have a look at the work programme to see what we need to agree on to bring forward for the autumn period. Is that agreed? Agreed. That concludes consideration of our work programme.

I must remind members that we launch our report on last November’s engagement with the Office of the Revenue Commissioners at 12.30 p.m. on Thursday next. The report will be circulated to members tomorrow and a printed copy will be left in each pigeonhole.

Do members wish to raise any other matters?