Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I think the witnesses get the point. We are used to hearing that the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform sent out protocols directives and policy statements. Does anyone ever find out that it is not our function to do that?

The last point is that the set of financial statements on the Higher Education Authority's website that was presented today is not complete. The witnesses have to send something to us and put it up on their website. I look at the contents. All of the page contents are "Xs". There is no page content. There is no data on which the reports were signed off. When we come to the section on the financial report statement of responsibilities and report of the Comptroller and Auditor General, his report is not in the document. There is a page missing. It looks to me as if this was a final draft. We googled the website in the last few minutes, so what we have received from the witnesses during the week is the one on their website. It is not the signed-off version of the Higher Education Authority's financial accounts for 2015. We need it to be up on the website pronto, and sent on to us.