The second item in my notes for today is that the committee has one EU proposal listed for consideration. Members should be aware that in accordance with procedure, the committee will take its decision on the EU proposal in public session following an initial consideration of the proposal in private session. The reason it is in private session is we have Oireachtas officials who will give us information. We will have our discussion and if, in public session, people want to clarify some of those points among the committee members but not with the Oireachtas staff they can. Members are free to reiterate some of the points in public session.
Members have received the combined briefing note that was circulated in the advance of the meeting. Including in the combined briefing note is the secretariat's advice note, explaining the legislative proposal and the subsidiarity aspects of this proposal. By way of clarification, I might ask whether that secretariat note will be available to the public. Is it published after this meeting? Our discussion, however, will be in public session.
Members will have an opportunity to ask questions after the proposal is explained in private session. For clarity, I inform members that any decision made today by the committee on subsidiarity aspects of this proposal will not prohibit Oireachtas committees from scrutinising this proposal in detail at a future date. I will ask the policy clerk in a moment to outline the proposal. I say that because we are given the go-ahead at EU level to proceed with discussions. The date by which they wanted to hear from the Parliament has just about elapsed.
That is why they wanted to hear from us. However, as this proposal is not due to be implemented until 2027, the line committee will be free, if it so chooses at a later date, to examine this in further detail. We are allowing the process to proceed at this stage.
We will now go into private session. Is that agreed? Agreed.