Apologies have been received from the Chairman, Deputy Fleming. All members should turn off their mobile telephones completely. Minutes of the meeting of 27 January were circulated. Are they agreed? Agreed.
I will go through the correspondence. No. 2009/324 relates to planning matters. It is a research paper on how regional and national planning management relate under the terms of planning legislation. We note the paper and will include it in our discussions on the Mayo directive report. No. 2009/325 is an urban policy research paper on social inclusion and integration. We note the correspondence. No. 2009/326 is a ministerial press release on the Minister's address to the composting industry. We note the correspondence. No. 2009/327 relates to Housing (Standards for Rented Houses) Regulations 2008, SI 534/2008, which comes into effect on 1 February 2009. The clerk has circulated a ministerial press release on that. We note the correspondence.
No. 2009/328 relates to the role of farmers in preserving the natural landscape of the Burren and involves a ministerial press release. We note the correspondence. No. 2009/329 is an undertaking to complete one major piece of research for the committee this year. We note the correspondence. We might discuss that further with our work programme. No. 2009/320 is a ministerial press release on the acceleration at European level of the phasing out of incandescent light bulbs. We note the correspondence. No. 2009/331 is a list of decisions taken at a meeting of the Joint Committee on European Scrutiny on 27 January 2009. It is sent to us for information only. We note the correspondence. No. 2009/332 is a letter on costs by way of follow up to queries raised at the recent meeting with Dublin City Council on the Ringsend waste water treatment plant. We note the correspondence. No. 2009/333 is a circular referred to in a presentation to the committee last week regarding licences, permits and illegal dumping. We note the correspondence.
We now come to the annual report 2007 to 2008 and the work programme for 2009. Members have been circulated with the draft annual report for 2007 to 2008. The draft report fulfils the requirements under the committee's Standing Orders, namely, to make an annual report, to review its procedures and role, to prepare a work programme, and to consider laying its minutes.
The 2009 work programme in the report has been highlighted at our last three meetings, and I invite formal submissions on the work programme. In making submissions, I remind members of the offer from the Oireachtas Library and Research Service to undertake one major piece of research per committee of the Houses. We await submissions. Does anybody wish to submit anything or do members wish to think about it?
