Will all members ensure that their mobile phones are switched off for the duration of the meeting? We have received apologies from Deputy Haughey.
Business of Committee.
I would like, on behalf of the committee, formally to propose a vote of sympathy with our Chairman, Deputy Haughey, on his father's recent death.
I second that vote of sympathy.
We would all like to be associated with that. Is it agreed that we go into private session? Agreed.
The joint committee went into private session at 10.10 a.m. and resumed in public session at 10.15 a.m.