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

Do any other members wish to come in on that? No.

Is the listing of accounts and financial statements agreed? Agreed. These will be published as part of our minutes.

I will move on to correspondence. As previously agreed, items that were not flagged for discussion for this meeting will be dealt with in accordance with the proposed actions that have been circulated, and decisions taken by the committee on correspondence are recorded in the minutes of the committee’s meetings and published on the committee’s webpage.

One item of correspondence has been flagged for discussion today and will be discussed in private so I will move on to the work programme if everyone is happy with that.

Members have been circulated with a draft work programme discussion document, which is displayed on screen now. Next week, on 15 February, we will meet with the Department of Justice regarding the 2022 appropriation accounts for Vote 21 – Prisons and Vote 24 – Justice. The resourcing of GSOC and the International Protection Office have been flagged as areas of interest for this meeting.

On 22 February, we will meet with the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media and with representatives from Sport Ireland, the FAI and the SFAI.

On 29 February, we will meet with Tusla regarding financial statements for 2022. Representatives of the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth have also been invited to attend.

On 7 March, we will engage with Inland Fisheries Ireland on its financial statements for 2022. Representatives of the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications have also been invited to attend. I recall that on the last occasion the IFI representatives were in before the committee was a morning and RTÉ were in before us in the afternoon. It was in the early days of RTÉ authority meetings last summer, so there is unfinished business there and we agreed to have IFI back again.

Following the March recess, we will meet with An Garda Síochána regarding the 2022 appropriation account for Vote 20 – An Garda Síochána. Representatives of the Department of Justice have also been invited to attend.

This programme brings us up to the Easter break. Considering the draft work programme in front of us, members may have issues of specific interest regarding any of those. This morning, we had GSOC representatives in and members may wish to raise any of those issues again with the Department of Justice next week but if there are any other issues for witnesses, I ask them to flag any areas of interest for these meetings.