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

The business this afternoon is minutes, accounts and financial statements, correspondence, work programme, the Comptroller and Auditor General's section 2 report, and any other business. We will then go briefly into private session before adjourning until next Thursday, 26 January.

The minutes of our meeting on 15 December have been circulated. Do members wish to raise matters about them? I believe they are accurate. Are the minutes agreed? Agreed. As usual, they will be published on the committee's web page.

Accounts and financial statements are next. There are quite a few of these today. Thirty-six sets of accounts and financial statements were laid before the Houses between 12 December and 21 January. I ask Mr. McCarthy, the Comptroller and Auditor General, to address these before I open to the floor.