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

In fairness, the secretariat puts in a lot of work chasing this stuff after meetings. As Deputies saw, keeping track of it can be difficult. Certainly, the secretariat keeps on it. If anything else comes up, the Deputy can raise it.

The next issue is the work programme. Following agreement last week regarding meetings, availability has been confirmed for the following engagements - the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications on 13 October; the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform on 20 October; the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth on 27 October; Greyhound Racing Ireland on 10 November; and the Department of Finance on 17 November. Is it agreed to proceed on that basis? Agreed.

A swap was done for meetings on 20 and 27 October between the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to facilitate the committee, which people are happy enough with. It is agreed to move ahead on that basis. I remind members that if there are specific areas on which they wish to focus the day departmental officials are in, to flag it with the clerk and he will bring it to their attention.

As discussed last week, I am reluctant to plan much further than that at this point. As members will be aware, the Comptroller and Auditor General's Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2021 will be available to us from the end of September and we might want to prioritise further areas for examination once we have sight of it. We may want to do that in a very timely manner. Are there any other matters that members wish to raise on the work programme? I take it they are happy. That concludes our consideration of the work programme for today.

The last item on the agenda is any other business. Are there any other issues members wish to raise? Okay. We will go into private session for a short period to deal with a matter.