Are the minutes of the meeting of 4 November agreed? Agreed.
Following the presentation by the head of the communications unit at the last meeting on the Houses of the Oireachtas committee media stratety, a copy of the report on the communications unit work programme on budget 2009 has been circulated to the committee for its information by Mr. Mark Mulqueen, head of the communications unit. Is the correspondence noted? Noted.
Details of the meeting in UCC on 26 November, including the estimated associated costs, have been circulated. May I have formal approval for the committee to undertake the meeting and the estimated costs as set out? Is that agreed? Agreed. In order to progress the practical arrangements for the meeting, I ask members to inform the secretariat as soon as possible whether they intend to participate in the meeting in Cork. In accordance with the rules on committee travel, the committee is required to consider the following: it is agreed that the meeting is directly and explicitly linked with an area of work in which the committee has decided to become involved, pursuant to its Orders of Reference and in the context of its work programme. Is that agreed? Agreed.