Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank Mr. McCarthy for that. We will thrash that out next week, hopefully, with the Comptroller and Auditor General in attendance when we will have the Accounting Officer present.

On 16 May 2024 we will meet with the Department of Education on Vote 26. The following areas of interest have been flagged: running costs and demand management for schools; school building programmes; school transport; disposal of assets of the religious orders; and Caranua.

On 23 May we engage with the Department of Defence on Vote 35 – Army Pensions; Vote 36 – Defence; and Chapter 12 of the Comptroller and Auditor General's annual report on stock management in the Defence Forces. The Army Reserve has been flagged as an area of interest.

On 30 May we will meet with the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board regarding the 2022 financial statements.

On 13 June we engage with the Office of Public Works, OPW, on Vote 13 – Office of Public Works. The following areas of interest have been flagged: the proposed national children’s science museum project; flood relief schemes; vacant properties in the OPW portfolio; modular housing for Ukrainian beneficiaries of temporary protection; and non-complaint procurement.

On 20 June 2024, we will engage with the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board in regard to the 2022 financial statements.

On 4 July 2024 we meet with Waterways Ireland in respect of the 2022 financial statements, which we have just discussed earlier.

On 11 July, we meet with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine on Vote 30 – Agriculture, Food and the Marine, and Chapter 10 of the Comptroller and Auditor General’s Annual Report - Estate management in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

We have one slot then left before the summer recess which is the vacant one on 27 June. I would encourage members to perhaps support a proposal that we would request the presence of the Road Safety Authority, RSA, and its Accounting Officer here on that day. It that agreed?