Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The next item is No. 252C, correspondence from an individual following up earlier correspondence regarding salmon stocks. This has been sent to the relevant Department and the EPA and we await a response. We will update the individual concerned when we get it. We note that.

No. 253C is correspondence from an anonymous source in respect of the returns to Cerberus on its purchase of Project Eagle. We note it and will include it as part of our correspondence on Project Eagle. The final item is No. 261C, correspondence from Deputy Catherine Murphy on our hearing in respect of NAMA and Project Eagle. Is it agreed that we note and deal with this matter in private session shortly? Agreed. We will have a discussion on Project Eagle and the drafting of the report in private session.

That is the end of correspondence. There was a lot to deal with because it has been a few weeks since the previous meeting, which took place before Christmas. Next, we turn to the reports and accounts received since the previous meeting. They are going up on the screen and I will try to move quickly through them. There are about 30. A lot of them have a clear audit opinion. I will take a shortcut on this. We will note all the ones with a clear audit opinion. I will just call them out. However, there are a number in respect of which the Comptroller and Auditor General has a clear comment. Sometimes the comment relates to public sector pensions and a lot of them relate to procurement. I will pass on a bit of work to the Comptroller and Auditor General and ask him for his 2015 audit schedule, which should have been cleared by about this time. Perhaps, he will draft and present a report to the committee on all of the organisations in respect of which he has completed an audit where there was not a clear audit opinion. I think he audits 300 organisations. There were probably comments in respect of 50 or 60 or some fraction. We might just get a report on all of those that did not get a clear audit opinion. They would be collated then because we are getting them bit by bit, meeting by meeting. It would be good to get a full summary. The Comptroller might put them into the different categories of comment, such as procurement, pensions, etc.