Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There was a clear audit report on it and it was the only one received. We will note that.

The next item is the work programme. To be clear, today I am proposing, once we finish this session, to bring in the officials from the Department of Finance to deal with the Finance Vote. In the afternoon, we will have those from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in regard to its Votes. That session will also include the special report on financial reporting in the public service which the Comptroller and Auditor General produced a little while ago. We will discuss that with the Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in the afternoon.

Before we get to that session, I want to have a private meeting to utterly finalise the education report which we hope - it is not definite - to launch next Tuesday. We are at a very advanced stage. If we complete the session with the Department of Finance before the voting block, we will start into that private session. If not, I really want to finish with the Department of Finance before the voting block and then we will commence immediately after the voting to sign off on the education report during a short private session. We will then move onto the session with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. That is the working plan. If we leave signing off the education report until after the session with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, it will be later on in the day and some members may not be able to be here at that stage, so we will get that cleared.

As I said, we are meeting in private session next week in regard to the Templemore report. The other thing I want to highlight relates to next week's meeting. The Garda Commissioner will be in to deal with the Garda Vote. There will also be officials from the Courts Service to deal with its Vote. There will be a joint session with An Garda Síochána and the Courts Service to discuss the collection of fines and the penalty points issue.

We asked that the report on the number of breath tests was to be dealt with as well but we were informed last night that the report is not expected to be finished by next Thursday. It was one of the items that was on our agenda. We are informed that the report is not expected until the end of the month. Therefore, we will not be able to deal with the issue in any great detail. We had scheduled this to be our last meeting of the year to give time to have this report done. We were informed last night that it will not be finished in An Garda Síochána until the end of the month. By the way, I wish to say that Deputy Commissioner Twomey will not be available on that day. However, the Commissioner is here as the principal witness with her two assistant commissioners. Therefore, it is only out of courtesy that I am saying that he personally cannot be here on that day, but the report will not be available to us on that day. I think that is a matter-----