Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

-----just about the submission for audit. We know the audit process will take months, but in our job as the Committee of Public Accounts, the first task is for people to submit accounts. If they do not submit accounts, we have nothing to talk to them about. The first step of that is them meeting their statutory requirement. I, as Chairman, wrote before Christmas to every body and organisation audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General to remind them of this. In a week or two, we will review that list, and any major agency that has not submitted its account for audit will be in here with the chairman of the board and chief executive. We are on that mission separately so we want confirmation that that is done in all cases.