Chairman:

Item No. 057B has been flagged by Deputy Carty. It is from Ms Josephine Kelly, a principal officer in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, dated 4 March 2020. It provides an explanation for the delay in the laying of the 2017 annual reports for the Aquaculture Licences Appeals Board and the Marine Institute before the Houses of the Oireachtas. They should have been laid within three months of the Comptroller and Auditor General signing them off, as per the requirements of Department of Public Expenditure and Reform Circular 7/2015. Deputy Carthy has suggested that we request a status update as to when these will be available. Is that agreed? Agreed.