Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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Do any members wish to comment? No. I propose that we write to UCD regarding the non-compliant procurement and ask for details of what it pertains to. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Can we agree accounts and financial statements? Agreed. As usual, we will publish the listing of accounts and financial statements as part of our minutes.

Moving on to correspondence, as previously agreed, items that were not flagged for discussion for this meeting will be dealt with in accordance with the proposed actions that have been circulated, and decisions taken by the committee in relation to the correspondence are recorded in the minutes of the committee’s meetings and published on the committee’s web page. No items have been flagged today for consideration in public this week. However, I propose to deal with R2226C , R2237C, R2238C and R2239C in private session.

Moving on to the work programme, a draft work programme discussion document, which is now displayed on the screens, has been circulated to members. Next week, on 30 November, we meet with the Department of Finance to discuss the Department’s appropriation accounts and chapters 1, 2, 24 and 25 of the C and AG’s annual report.

On 7 December, we will meet with the Department of Health to examine the 2022 appropriation account for Vote 38 and the following specific areas of interest: establishment of the new regional health areas; budget controls and governance; budget outcomes; agency costs; and service level agreements with section 38 and section 39 organisations.

The committee's final hearing of the year will take place on 14 December, when we will meet with the Housing Agency and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage in respect of chapter 11 on the utilisation of the land aggregation scheme, the Housing Agency’s 2021 financial statements and programme A of Vote 34 – Housing.

At last week’s meeting, it was agreed to schedule a meeting with the Department of Social Protection on 18 January in order to examine the 2022 appropriation account for Vote 37, the Social Insurance Fund, the relevant chapters from the C and AG’s annual report and the misclassification of workers. It was also agreed that we schedule a meeting with the Office of the Revenue Commissioners on 25 January, which is the following week, to examine the appropriation accounts for Vote 9, the relevant chapters from the C and AG’s annual report and the misclassification of workers. The reason we are arranging it that way, for the benefit of any members that were not here, is that because it is the same subject, we will try to do them one week after the other.

On the work programme, if members have any other issues they wish to add to the agenda for any of these meetings or any further meetings, please feel free to put them forward. As we are nearing the end of the year, I propose we have a discussion about the work programme for the new year at next week’s meeting. It is important that members give that some attention. If members have suggestions, I ask them to please forward them to the secretariat or bring them into next week’s meeting. Is everyone happy enough with the work programme? Is Deputy Burke happy enough with it?