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

I will address my final question to the Comptroller and Auditor General. Somebody made the comment that when he went to prepare the audit, some adjustments had to be made to the draft accounts as presented. Perhaps I did not pick that comment up correctly. The report provided here states that the unaudited accounts for 2011 were presented to the Department in February 2012, and the audit began on 5 March, but was not completed until 12 months later on 15 March 2013. The report goes on to state that the financial results in the 2011 annual report did not change from the unaudited accounts as submitted in 2012. If that is the case, why did it take over a full year to carry out the audit? That is the implication of what I am getting here, given that the accounts the Comptroller and Auditor General was presented with were the final accounts, according to this document.