1. As mentioned previously, the Committee was unable to engage fully with all that was presented to it at the briefing because of time pressures. We believe that continuing interaction between the Committee and the Department in the form of quarterly meetings will allow for more rigorous and forward- thinking dealings. The Committee also welcomes the Department's undertaking to make available written responses to all the issues that the previous Committee had raised in its 2008/09 Budget report, as well as make available to it the quarterly performance reports that it now produces routinely. These, we believe, will be of great assistance.