Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is fine for now. There has been protracted correspondence with many organisations. As Deputy Connolly states, we need to bring it to a conclusion at some stage. We are not in a position today to do that, but we will come back to it.

The next item of correspondence is a letter from an individual in respect of Meath County Council and previous correspondence to the PAC. The person involved has contacted the clerk to the committee and asked that we defer consideration until next week, which we have agreed to.

Finally we received a protected disclosure before the recess and have been contacted again by the individual. I would like it noted that we will return to this. We are getting legal advice on that disclosure. We did not get to deal with it before the recess but we will come back to it. That is the biggest item on the agenda.

Other items are the financial statements and accounts received since our meeting on Thursday, 21 July. Members can view the schedule on their screens. We can address these quite quickly. I have looked at them and some of them do not present a problem. No. 4.1 is the accounts of Pobal, which has received a clear audit opinion but the statement on internal financial control discloses that an audit, by Pobal, of a child care organisation funded by it identified irregular payments estimated at €500,000 in relation to the community child care subvention and early childhood care and education programmes.