John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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Today's meeting is a special meeting which will deal solely with the 2011 appropriation accounts, Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills, review of allowances. We have received correspondence relating to today's meeting from the Department of Education and Skills. We asked the Irish Congress of Trade Unions to establish whether the teachers' unions wanted to participate in today's examination. It did not accept our invitation and its views will be encompassed in the presentation to be made by the congress at our meeting on Thursday, 1 November 2012. Documents relating to today's meeting comprise correspondence from Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú regarding the payments of allowances, correspondence from 22 October 2012 from Mr. Ó Foghlú regarding his opening statement, and further correspondence from him.

In respect of the work programme next week, I understand the Dáil will not be sitting next week, although that decision must be made tomorrow. The main speakers on Wednesday are Deputies Connaughton and McCarthy, while the main speakers on Thursday are Deputies Nash and Donohoe. Are those two sittings agreed?