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

Yes, the IPA. We will write to it and we will point this out to it. We will ask it what is being done to correct that late presentation. Can we agree the list of accounts and financial statements? Agreed.

Let us move on to correspondence, which is item number three. This is correspondence that was previously agreed. Items that were not flagged for discussion in this meeting will be dealt with in accordance with the proposed actions that have been circulated. Decisions taken in relation to correspondence will be recorded in the minutes and will be published on the committee's web page.

Four items have been flagged under category B, namely, correspondence from Accounting Officers or Ministers and follow-up to meetings of the Committee of Public Accounts. The first is No. 2481B, which is from Oonagh McPhillips, Secretary General at the Department of Justice. She wrote back to us to provide the information we requested in relation to public services apprenticeship programmes for junior investigators in the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC. Is it agreed to note and publish that item of correspondence? Agreed. Deputy Catherine Murphy had flagged this item and she wishes to comment on it.