John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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We will remind them of all of these issues and send them a transcript of the meeting. In fairness to those who made the submission, they should also receive a transcript of the meeting because Mr. O'Driscoll made it perfectly clear that he felt it was untrue or even that they might have been telling lies, to put it another way. If that is the case, then those people should be given the opportunity to respond. I would ask that the transcript be sent to those people who made a submission and who gave us details of their experiences with the SIU.

Later this evening the clerk will circulate a draft report on the Bytel project. The Committee of Public Accounts of the Northern Ireland Assembly will publish its report on this project next Wednesday and I propose that we do likewise. I ask members to contact the clerk if they wish to propose amendments to the draft report. One way or the other, at 5 p.m. next Tuesday we should just publish the report. Apologies, if members have any comments on the report, they should submit them to the clerk before Wednesday next rather than Tuesday. At midday on Wednesday we will publish the report. Is that agreed? Agreed.

We have agreed our agenda for 2 July. Before we move on to today's business there is one more item to be dealt with. We had been dealing with HL Commodity Foods in Limerick but had not completed our business on that. I have asked the clerk to get an update on the issues that were raised in correspondence and bring it to the next meeting. We will now move on to the subject of today's meeting.