John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Today's meeting will be in two sessions, the first of which is to discuss report 42 of the review body on higher remuneration in the public service. We have representatives with us from the group that has been affected. I welcome them all here. We are happy to deal with this issue.

We will have an opening statement and then members can address the statement and any queries they may have with regard to the overall issue. We will keep it as informal as we can in order to get as much information as possible from the session to progress the matter on the group's behalf. Mr. John O’Brien, Mr. Tim Kenneally, Ms Maureen Cronin and Ms Paula Lawler are very welcome.

I ask whosoever will make the opening statement to recall the note on privilege, which states one shall not name anyone in such a way as to make him or her identifiable and so on. Likewise, members already will have heard the note on privilege.