Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, as a permanent witness to the committee. He is joined today by Mr. Brian Hill, senior auditor. The first item on our agenda is the minutes of the meeting of 8 February 2018. Are they agreed? Agreed. I have received apologies from Deputy Mary Lou McDonald. The next item on the agenda is matters arising from the minutes. Everything referred to in the minutes is moving ahead and we can move on. Is that agreed? Agreed.

The next item is correspondence for today's meeting. Correspondence No. 1079 is a briefing document from Dr. Brian Keegan on corporation tax. We will discuss this in private session and there may some additions and changes as a result of this morning's meeting. We will have a final document for next week. I propose that we discuss it in private session but not publish it at the moment. Obviously we will publish the final version next week. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Under category B, correspondence from Accounting Officers and Ministers following up committee meetings and other items for publishing, the first item is No. 1067B received from Mr. Des Fitzgerald, president of University of Limerick, following the committee's request for an update on the implementation of the recommendations of University of Limerick's internal audit review of August 2017. I believe we should take up Mr. Fitzgerald on his offer to provide further updates and request a copy of the Crowe Howarth review mentioned in the letter.