Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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I am pleased to note that no statements and accounts have been received in the past seven days.

Members will see the draft work programme on the screen. We will deal with housing this morning and the Local Government Fund and central government funding for local authorities in the afternoon. We will have one lead speaker in the morning and one lead speaker in the afternoon and a ten-minute slot will be allocated to every other speaker. We must finish our session on housing this morning.

On 7 March 2019, we will discuss the oversight and implementation of capital projects. Officials from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform will appear before the committee in the morning.

We are going to deal with the role of public officials in capital projects, not just in the context of the national children's hospital.

We will have a private meeting next week to complete our consideration of the draft periodic report for September through to the end of 2018. We had a discussion about this issue previously and the secretariat will bring forward the amendments proposed. We are nearly there in our consideration of the report. The time slots available next Tuesday for the aforementioned private meeting are 1 p.m. and 7.15 p.m. Which would suit members best? In respect of the 1 p.m. slot, I remind them that Leaders' Questions in the Dáil will begin at 2 p.m., which may be a little too tight. I suggest Tuesday evening, at 7.15 p.m., would be better, given that we will all be in Leinster House. The meeting should not take too long because we have already had a run-through on the report.