Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The annual accounts for the year ending 30 June 2011 were signed off on 21 December 2011, which led me to query whether the 2012 accounts had been signed off. It would have been far more beneficial for the committee to have had those accounts. On two occasions during the past couple of months we discussed accounts that were a year and a half old. It would be far more beneficial and make our business more relevant if we were discussing more up to date accounts. I accept that the situation in respect of the Departments is more straightforward. However, our business would be far more relevant if we were discussing agency accounts for 2012, even if not published.