Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, who is a permanent witness at the committee. No apologies have been received.

The first item on the agenda is the minutes of the meetings of 11 and 18 May 2017. Are they agreed to? Agreed. As there is nothing specific arising from them that will not come up in our discussion of items further down the agenda, we will move on straightaway to correspondence.

Category A is correspondence related to today's meeting. As we have no witnesses this morning, there is nothing to be noted formally or published.

Category B is correspondence from Accounting Officers and-or Ministers as a follow-up to previous meetings. The first item is No. 516B, dated 22 May, from Dr. Graham Love, CEO of the Higher Education Authority, HEA. The correspondence includes the terms of reference for the HEA's analysis of intellectual property policy implementation across higher education institutions. Dr. Love mentions that the HEA is putting together terms of reference for a review of the spin-out company FeedHenry in Waterford Institute of Technology and that they will be completed shortly. This is a very welcome development. Do members wish to make specific comments or will we simply note the correspondence?