Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Apologies have been received from the Chairman of the joint committee, Deputy Pat Breen, and also from Deputy Seán Crowe. The draft minutes of the meeting of 26 February have been circulated. Are the minutes agreed? Agreed. Arising from the minutes, I wish to point out that a meeting of the joint committee with the Ukrainian ambassador to Ireland has been arranged for tomorrow at 3.30 p.m. I would ask that everybody attend if possible. A meeting of the joint committee with the Russian ambassador to Ireland has been arranged for next Wednesday, 12 March 2014, at 2.30 p.m. Again, it is important that everybody try to attend. Obviously, this is an important subject. Following the recommencement of negotiations on the future of Cyprus, the Turkish ambassador to Ireland will come before the committee on 26 March next. All three meetings are very important. I ask people to make a special effort to be in attendance. The secretariat has been informed that the Tánaiste, who has had a particularly busy schedule in the past couple of days, is running a bit late. He is at a meeting at present. As soon as that is over, he will be on his way. I propose to go into private session now to deal with those issues that are normally dealt with in private session.