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

Is it agreed that we will note the listing of accounts and financial statements? Agreed. As usual, the listing of accounts and financial statements will be published as part of our minutes.

Moving on to correspondence, and as previously agreed, correspondence items that were not flagged for discussion for this meeting will continue to be dealt with in accordance with the proposed actions circulated by the secretariat, and decisions taken by the committee in respect of correspondence are recorded in the minutes of the committee's meetings and published on our webpage.

The first category of correspondence under which Members have flagged items for discussion is B, correspondence from Accounting Officers and-or Ministers and follow-up to committee meetings. The following two items are held over from previous meetings. They are both related to Benefacts, so we will take them together.

The first is No. R1726B and is from Ms Mary Hurley, Secretary General of the Department of Rural and Community Development. It is dated 7 February 2023 and provides an update on the scoping exercise for a system to replace the Benefacts database, the proposed centralised grantee database and national funding platform. The committee has since written to the Department to request a copy of the business case for the project and details of the scope of Pobal's proposed role in the project. A response is awaited.

The second item is from Mr. David Moloney, Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform. It is dated 21 February 2023 and provides further information on Benefacts requested by the committee. It is proposed that we note and publish this correspondence. Is that agreed? Agreed. We have held this over for a few weeks for Deputy Catherine Murphy.