Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The reason I am asking is that some people are saying the briefing was very short. Mr. Dunne has said it was quite extensive and that is what the minutes show. We cannot know which view is right or where it falls in between. We know that at the subsequent meeting, on which Mr. Ó Cualáin said we needed to follow up, there was a brief discussion as there is a short paragraph on the December meeting. When we receive the information, we might have to double check it with Mr. Howard.

I have a couple of very quick questions. Can somebody give us an indication of how many audit reports would be produced in each of the years? I am sure the audit committee has produced other reports. From the sequence, I understand this issue arose in the second half of 2015. I am sure there was an audit programme or work on an ongoing report to be completed that year. In early 2016 the audit committee would have set out that it wanted one, two, three, four or five reports and that is probably why. I want to understand why it was the spring before that request had worked its way into the audit work programme for 2016. Are there many audit reports? Could the request gazump everything already included in the work programme of the audit committee?