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

Benefacts was a very low-cost service in overall expenditure terms. The information it was able to provide was not very significant. We will ask for that.

That concludes the correspondence for this week. Moving on to the work programme, we had a long discussion on this last week. The engagements scheduled to year end are as follows. Next week we will have two public engagements, so I ask members to keep an eye on this. The morning session will be with the Office of the Revenue Commissioners, and the afternoon session will be with the operator of the national lottery. Members will recall that last week we had the regulator in, so it is to follow on from that. The final public engagement of the year is scheduled for 15 December and will be with the OPW.

At our meeting last week, we considered our work programme for next year. A schedule incorporating proposed meetings based on last week's discussion was circulated yesterday and will be brought up on members' screens now. Last week's discussion document was based primarily on the chapters we have yet to examine from the Comptroller and Auditor General's 2021 report on the accounts of the public services and bodies that we have added to the work programme. We made a number of changes to it, and those are reflected in the draft that was circulated for today's meeting. Due to the fact that we have two public engagements next week, we will not return to it until 15 December. I ask members to be mindful of that. Does any member wish to raise any matters in respect of the work programme for the new year?