John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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We will deal with the minutes of our 24 September meeting first. There are no matters arising.

There are a number of items of correspondence from our last meeting that I would like to address separately, but today is not the day for that as we have a busy agenda. With agreement, we can consider them at a future date. Regarding our last meeting, we have asked for certain information from Waterford Institute of Technology and others. We will send a reminder. There may be a need to meet the Secretary General of the Department, Mr. Boland and WIT again. When the information is before members, they can decide.

To clarify a point about today's correspondence, we decided to ask whether the chairman of the Northern Irish finance committee or the committee itself wished to attend this session. The clerk of that committee and our clerk have been in contact and attendance has been arranged for today. The indications from Mr. Bryson are that he is available to give evidence, but that is a committee decision.

I suggest we hear the evidence today and then decide on the steps we wish to take.