Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We will look at that report in September 2018 if we are all here.

Nos. 499C (i) and (ii) are correspondence dated 2 May 2017 from the Oireachtas Library and Research Service requesting permission to circulate a report requested by the previous Committee of Public Accounts on the remit of the Committee of Public Accounts. A copy of the document was requested by another Member of the Houses. Is it agreed that we make this document available to the Member? Agreed. The Library and Research Service has a protocol. If somebody asks it to do a body of work, it does so but before a third party seeks a copy, it must get the consent of the person who asked for the work to be done. We have no problem regarding making a document on the remit of the Committee of Public Accounts widely available. We will note and publish that ourselves. I think it is doing some further work on it. It is a very useful document that is helpful to us. The last Committee of Public Accounts went to the trouble of getting a document produced so I ask members to read it in their own time. We will give the Library and Research Service permission to release to whoever requested it.

The next item on the agenda is statements and accounts received the last meeting, of which there are only a couple. The first one is the Revenue account. As the account of State revenues and income received, it is only a slight matter of €66 billion in total revenues to the State in 2016. The Revenue Commissioners are scheduled for a visit and we will deal with that then. There is a clear audit opinion. The next item is the Irish Museum of Modern Art for which there is a clear audit opinion. The next item is the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority for which there is a clear audit opinion for 2015. The next item is the National Library of Ireland for which there is a clear audit opinion for 2015. In respect of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority and the National Library of Ireland, it is 17 months after year end. That is an excessive period in all three cases. Does the Comptroller and Auditor General know when they were presented to him?