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The minutes of the meeting of 28 January have been circulated. Are they agreed? Agreed.

No. 007/2026 is correspondence from Social Justice Ireland regarding Wellbeing: Measuring What Matters 2025. The correspondence received from Social Justice Ireland provided its alternative report on well-being. The report provides an independent assessment of well-being in Ireland and offers a critical examination of the Government's Understanding Life in Ireland report. Social Justice Ireland's report proposes an alternative well-being framework that reintegrates equality and sustainability as collective well-being metrics, with the aim of better informing public policy. Additionally, it requests the opportunity to address the committee. We will agree to that and put it on the list of people to be invited to a future meeting. Is that agreed? Agreed. We will not set a date for that today.

No. 008/2026 is correspondence from Wind Energy Ireland to arrange a meeting on developments in wind energy. The correspondence received from Wind Energy Ireland and forwarded by the Cathaoirleach queried whether it would be useful to arrange a meeting for an update on the development of wind energy in Ireland, its impact on prices and to hear the concerns and issues members might want to raise. Wind Energy Ireland heard the Cathaoirleach mention this in the infrastructural committee meeting on 14 January and noted his comments on grid constraints and the cost of electricity. It proposed we meet with its director of external affairs, Justin Moran, on 12 February, if that suited, or on the afternoon of 17 February at an all-day event to be arranged. Do members agree we should with Wind Energy Ireland? Agreed. Again, we will not set a date but we will put it on the work programme, which makes sense.

No. 009/2026 is correspondence from ESB Networks crew and partners who travelled to Portugal to support power restoration efforts following Storm Kristin and Storm Leonardo. That is really a press release from ESB Networks outlining the great work it did. We will note and publish that.

The next item is a discussion on future meetings. The clerk is working on a draft programme, which we will have shortly. We have a number of meetings. We will get clarity on the next couple of meetings because we do not have them clarified as yet, and we put a lot of work into them. Today, we have the Irish Wheelchair Association and the Disability Federation Ireland before us.

Next week it is the County and City Management Association, who are in important group to have in. On 25 February we will have the Central Statistics Office and the Economic and Social Research Institute. The next one we were suggesting for 4 March will be with Dr. Paul Davis of Dublin City University and also the Office of Government Procurement because it is about procurement issues. This was proposed by Senator Stephenson and agreed by the committee, so I hope the date is suitable. I suggest that shortly after that we need to deal with the National Development Finance Agency on financing all the major infrastructure, whether public, private or funded by State savings, borrowings, taxation receipts or whatever. We need to have a discussion on financing the various infrastructure projects we have not come to yet. I hope in the next week or two we will have a firm plan of action for the weeks ahead. We have agreed the next three or four meetings so we have a clear plan for what we are going to do right up to St. Patrick's week.

Before we move the next item of business we will suspend briefly while we bring in the witnesses.