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

If there are no other comments, is it agreed to note the listing of the accounts and financial statements? Agreed. As usual, the accounts and financial statements will be published as part of the minutes.

The third item is correspondence. No items of correspondence were flagged for discussion for this meeting so the correspondence will be dealt with in accordance with the proposed actions that have been circulated. The decisions taken by the committee in regard to the correspondence will be recorded in the minutes of the committee's meetings and published on the committee’s website. Members will note that one of those items of correspondence is from the Secretary General of the Department of Health, Mr. Robert Watt, and we would have dealt with that this morning as part of our meeting. We will note that.

The fourth item is the work programme. A draft work programme discussion document has been circulated to members, which is displayed on the screens.

Next week, we engage with the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage in regard to the Department's 2022 appropriation accounts, the central funding of local authorities and chapter 4 on accountability for central funding to local authorities. The delivery of social housing by local authorities and the funding of and governance of Uisce Éireann have been flagged as specific areas of interest, and representatives of Uisce Éireann and the Commission for Regulation of Utilities have been requested to attend with the Department.

On 9 November, we will meet with the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland and the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications to discuss chapter 8 of the report of the accounts of public services on the performance of certain residential retrofit schemes.

On 16 November, we will meet with the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform in regard to its 2022 appropriation accounts and chapter 5 of the reports of the accounts of public services, and the format and content of those appropriation accounts.

Moving on, is it agreed that on 23 November we meet again with the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage to examine chapter 9, on the utilisation of the land aggregation scheme sites? Members will note that this arose out of a meeting we had and figures we got that showed that most of the sites have not been utilised for housing. It is proposed to invite the Housing Agency to the meeting on 23 November alongside the Department. Is that agreed?