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

The business before us is the minutes, accounts and financial statements, correspondence, work programme and any other business.

The first item is the minutes of meetings of 28 and 30 September, which were circulated to members. Do members wish to raise any matters? Are the minutes agreed? Agreed. As usual, the minutes will be published on the committee's web page.

The next matter is accounts and financial statements. Forty seven sets of financial statements and accounts were laid before the Dáil between 27 September and 1 October. These include 45 appropriation accounts in the Comptroller and Auditor General's annual report, which was published on 30 September, as well as two sets of accounts from the education sector. I will ask the Comptroller and Auditor General to address those accounts and statements before I open it to the floor.