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

The first item on the agenda for public business this morning is the minutes of our meetings of 6 July, 11 July and 13 July. These have been circulated to members. Do any members wish to raise any matters regarding the minutes? Are the minutes agreed? Agreed. As usual, they will be published on the committee's webpage.

We now move on to accounts and financial statements. We have a lot of those this morning. Some 68 sets of accounts and financial statements were laid between 10 July and 15 September 2023. I will ask the Comptroller and Auditor General, Seamus McCarthy, to address these. Before he begins, I suggest that, because there are so many, we might take groups of six or so at a time. If he were to go through the whole lot, members will have forgotten points they wanted to raise. Perhaps we could take five or six at a time and then pause. I think that is the best thing to do.