We have received apologies from Lady Sylvia Hermon MP, Mark Durkan MP, Michelle Gildernew, MP, MLA and Alasdair McDonnell, MP, MLA. I remind members, guests and those in the public gallery to switch off their mobile telephones and BlackBerry devices. They must be switched off completely because they interfere with the recording equipment. I ask people to respect that and to switch off their mobile telephones and BlackBerry devices immediately.
The minutes of the meeting of 24 November have been circulated. Are they agreed? Agreed.
I would like to deal very quickly with the following correspondence. We have a letter dated 28 November from myself to the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, asking him to consider appointing Northern Ireland representative to the board of NAMA. Members might recall that we decided at our last meeting to send that letter. I would like to inform them that the chairman of NAMA, Mr. Frank Daly, has agreed to appear before the committee early in the new year to discuss issues in regard to NAMA properties in the North.
We have received emails from Deputies Joe McHugh, Aodhán Ó Ríordáin and Michael Kitt and Senator Mary Moran requesting that the Hanna's House organisation be invited to address the committee. I propose we meet it in the new year. Is that agreed? Agreed. We also have a letter from Deputy Joe McHugh informing the committee that he met the all-Ireland security and emergency services forum and he has asked the committee secretariat to engage with the forum and its proposals. Members have been given a transcript of the organisation's proposed constitution. Is it agreed we note that correspondence? Agreed.
We received a document from the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission entitled, the Advice of the Joint Committee on a Charter of Rights for the Island of Ireland. It is dated June 2011. Members should have received a copy of it in their pigeon holes. It may have been put there this morning. Is it agreed we note that correspondence? Agreed.
We received a letter from Lynda Sullivan of the Human Rights Consortium inviting members of the committee to a human rights day celebration which will take place tomorrow in the Lanyon Building in Queen's University, Belfast, between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. Unfortunately, I cannot go, although it apologised for the short notice. If any members are available and would like to attend, I have the details and perhaps they can approach me later.