Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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No apologies have been received. As the Minister of State, Deputy Niall Collins, is an ex officiomember of the committee, we have a quorum. I remind members to please ensure their mobile phones are switched off. I ask witnesses to put their mobile phones on silent or airplane mode.

The meeting will consider the Supplementary Estimates for Vote 26, Education, and Vote 45, Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, which were referred to this committee by the Dáil. I welcome the Minister for Education, Deputy Foley, and her officials to the meeting. I also thank her for the briefing documents she provided prior to today. Members can ask general questions on Vote 26. They will each have a five-minute slot, approximately, depending on the number of members who turn up. I call the Minister to make her opening statement.