the european union's chief breaks at the goetia michel bania held talks with both his british counterpart and island's foreign minister both sides say they want a deal but there seems to be little progress an island has now accused the u.k. of not coming up with anything new it's a particular concern for ireland which is forecast to go into recession if the u.k. leaves the e.u. without a deal and has the latest. it's been an extraordinarily toxic week in british politics particularly after those weapons day confrontations in the house of commons between the prime minister boris johnson and in particular opposition m.p.'s boris johnson calling a piece of legislation which is designed to stop britain leaving the e.u. without a deal as a surrender act and that really incited an inflamed tempest on both sides of the house but away from the arguments and the rhetoric of there has been some actual negotiations taking place in brussels on friday the problem is that doesn't appear to have been any tangible progress from then we're going to hear from a couple of those people involved in meetings i

. >> commissioner bania? >> yes. having entered as a commissioner in an era of prioritytizin priok orders in an atmosphere environment of budget cuts, and now coming to a place where we find ourselves with some resources to be able to develop a full-fledged plan, to be able to address our deferred maintenance projects is such an incredible experience for me because it's actually during this whole time that i've been a commissioner, has always been a major concern to me that we were losing sight of really addressing all of our deferred maintenance projects and really not putting forth a plan to make sure that we could really keep pace and i am so grateful to be able to be voting on this plan and i'm in full support. >> commissioner anderson? >> yes. addressing deferred maintenance is definitely music to the ears of our san francisco residence, thank you. >> entertain a motion. >> so moved. >> all in favour? aye. so moved. thank you. >> we are now on item 13, the annual report. >> since this is nonaction, we will conti