Michael McCarthy (Cork South West, Labour)
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I welcome the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Phil Hogan, the Minister of State, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, and their officials, Ms Geraldine Tallon, Secretary General, Ms Mary Moylan, assistant secretary general, Mr. Michael Layde, assistant secretary general, and Mr. Maurice Coughlan, finance officer. As the witnesses are familiar with procedures relating to defamation and so forth, it will not be necessary to set them out in detail. I invite the Minister to make his opening statement.