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

The public business before us this afternoon is as follows: minutes; accounts and financial statements; correspondence; work programme; and any other business.

The minutes of our meeting of 16 November 2023 have been circulated to members. Do any members wish to raise any matters? Are the minutes agreed? Agreed. As usual, they will be published on the committee's web page.

Moving on to accounts and financial statements, four sets of accounts and financial statements were laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas between 13 and 17 November 2023. I ask Mr. Seamus McCarthy, the Comptroller and Auditor General, to address these before we open the discussion up to the floor.