EVERY MORNING, TheJournal.ie brings you the stories you need to know as you wake up.

1. #BANKING INQUIRY: The committee’s report will finally be released today. According to RTÉ, it recommends that a commercial property price register be set up. Socialist Party TD Joe Higgins, who refused to endorse the report, will release his own separate conclusions.

2. #TALLAGHT: Gardaí are investigating an alleged sexual assault on a teenage girl.

3. #WEATHER: Today will be calmer weather-wise, as the country recovers from yesterday’s torrential rainfall and floods.

4. #DIRECT PROVISION: The Department of Social Protection has revealed figures showing the cost of increasing the allowances paid to children and adults in Direct Provision.

5. #APOLOGY: The HSE has issued a formal written apology to a woman who was allegedly abused for two decades at a state-run foster home, reports the Irish Examiner.

6. #RNLI: Volunteer lifeboat crews launched 1,098 times last year, bringing 1,244 people to safety.

7. #ZIKA: A person in Denmark has tested positive for the Zika virus, which has been linked to brain damage in thousands of babies in Brazil.

8. #LICK OF PAINT: The office shared by the Departments of Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform is getting a €4 million facelift.

9. #SEXUAL ABUSE: German police are investigating a man for allegedly sexually abusing a German-Russian teenager, whose claim she was kidnapped and raped by foreigners in Berlin has been backed by Moscow.