Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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That is fine. Can we agree to note the listing of accounts and financial statements? Agreed. As usual, the listing of accounts and financial statements will be published as part of our minutes.

Moving to correspondence, as previously agreed, items that were not flagged for discussion for this meeting will continue to be dealt with in accordance with the proposed actions that have been circulated, and decisions taken by the committee on correspondence are recorded in the minutes of the committee’s meetings and published on the committee’s webpage.

The first category of correspondence under which members have flagged items for discussion is category B, correspondence from Accounting Officers and-or Ministers and follow up.

No. 1726 is from Ms Mary Hurley, Secretary General, Department of Rural and Community Development, dated 7 February 2023, providing an update on the scoping exercise for a system to replace the Benefacts database, a proposed centralised grantee database for national funding platforms. At our meeting on 26 January, we decided to reiterate our request to the Department for the business case for the project to develop a system to replace the Benefacts database and details of the scope of Pobal's proposed role in the project. That letter issued on 10 February and a response is awaited. In the meantime, this letter was received. At our meeting last week, we agreed to note and publish this item and to hold it over for consideration this week. Deputy Catherine Murphy flagged the item last week and requested that it be held over. She is not here again today. Does any other member wish to comment on it? Are members happy to hold it over for one more week?