We have, in the Visitors' Gallery, Mr. Michael O'Brien, Trócaire, Mr. Hans Zomer, Dóchas, Ms Severine Meyer, Plan International Ireland, the Estonian Ambassador, His Excellency, Mr. Mait Martinson, Mr. Brendan Rogers, director general of Irish Aid, Mr. Simon Murtagh of AWEPA, Mr. Simon Clements, development specialist, Irish Aid, and Ms Barbara Cullinane, counsellor, Department of Foreign Affairs.
I ask members and those in the Visitors' Gallery to please ensure their mobile telephones and BlackBerry devices are switched off completely for the duration of the meeting as they cause interference, even if in silent mode, with the recording equipment in committee rooms.
The minutes of the meeting of 20 October have been circulated. Are they agreed?