Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Next up is the Cork ETB - clear audit opinion. The final one is InterTradeIreland - clear audit opinion. These are noted.

The next item is the work programme. Last year, we completed all of the chapters in the Comptroller and Auditor General's report as well as three special reports on NAMA, Templemore - the interim report - and third level. During the summer we lined up a number of meetings for the first few weeks. The Comptroller and Auditor General's annual report will be out next Friday so we will not have it by next Thursday. At our meeting on 5 October, we will have the opportunity to discuss this report and identify our priorities and, depending on what is in the report, decide which organisations we need to bring in first. Whomever we decide to bring in will need a bit of time in advance. In that context, I suggest a few meetings in the next month so as to show them the road. HIQA will be coming before us and IDA Ireland is up the following week. We are making provision for Mr. Tony O'Brien and for the acting Garda Commissioner to appear next Thursday if we have not received the report by tomorrow. We will have to squeeze that time in.

I asked the Comptroller and Auditor General to name the biggest outfit he audits that has not appeared before us in quite a while. Transport Infrastructure Ireland is a big outfit, and there is not a constituency in Ireland that does not have a view on something to do with transport. A lot of people, then, will want to talk to its representatives. Tusla keeps cropping up. It cropped up again today and I think we need to talk to it. With regard to the HSE, we held off dealing with section 38 and 39 organisations last year but I think we need to go back to them now. We do not need to spend the year dealing with them but we have not dealt with that matter in a while. I propose that we talk to representatives from the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment on the 9 November and deal with local government on the 16 November. That will take us up to the 26 November. So we will meet representatives from HIQA, IDA Ireland, Transport Infrastructure Ireland, Tusla and the HSE - on section 38 and section 39 organisations - in the period up to the end of November.