Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, as a permanent witness to the committee. He is accompanied by Ms Mary Henry. Apologies have been received from Deputies Josepha Madigan and Alan Farrell. Deputy Madigan has written to the committee to state she will not be continuing as a member of the committee and will be replaced by the Dáil in due course. Deputy Farrell has indicated that he expects to continue on the committee. Until such time as they are replaced, both members will still be members of the committee.

The first item on the agenda is the minutes of the meetings of 4, 5 and 6 July 2017. They have been circulated. Are they agreed? Agreed.

The next item are matters arising from the minutes. There is nothing specific that is not on the agenda in front of us.

The next item is correspondence. Category A refers to correspondence for today's meeting. Nos. 670 (i) and 670 (ii) are a briefing paper from Brendan Ryan, chief executive of the Courts Service and a briefing paper in respect of prosecutions for fixed charge notice motoring offences by An Garda Síochána. We will be returning to that matter in the autumn. We have indicated that as the complete report from An Garda Síochána is not available at present, we are deferring detailed examination of that topic. We have received an interim report that we can discuss. We can discuss anything in front of us but as the final report has not been finalised, we will come back to it in due course.