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

The business before the committee this afternoon is as follows: minutes, accounts and financial statements, correspondence, work programme and any other business. We will then go into private session to report on our engagement with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. The first item is minutes from the meeting dated 29 September 2022, which have been circulated to members. Do members wish to raise any matters regarding the minutes? Are the minutes agreed? Agreed. As usual, they will be published on the committee's web page.

I will move on to accounts and financial statements. Some 56 sets of financial statements and accounts, including appropriation accounts, were laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas between 26 and 30 September 2022. I ask the Comptroller and Auditor General to address these before opening the floor to members.