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

When scheduling, we need to understand we are dealing with other people's diaries. At least the secretariat now has a draft which it can try to match up with witnesses' availability and everything else. We will do some work on that before next week so that when we come back, we will have a schedule of work set out for the new year.

That concludes our consideration of the work programme for the new year. I hope it will be firmed up a bit for next week.

On any other business, I wish to raise overdue responses to correspondence issued by the committee. Members might recall that we considered an update prepared by the secretariat on overdue correspondence at our meeting on 22 September 2022. It is proposed that the secretariat bring overdue correspondence to the attention of the committee from time to time and that it be included as an agenda item for consideration in public session. Is that agreed?