Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There will be changes in the structure of that account for 2018 onwards. We will be dealing with 2017. The National Training Fund is collected from employers by the Department of Education and Skills. There should not be a delay there. I propose we invite it to come before the committee.

I propose to turn over the page with the list on it, because we have to be very selective. I suggest we pass on the third level institutions because we had quite a grilling with them last year. Dundalk Institute of Technology is the biggest institution that has not come before us yet. It came before us last year, when it was in the position of not being able to appoint a chief executive. It knows precisely the issue it had and it also had bigger issues. Rather than bringing it back a second time, I suggest we pass on it. We will write to them all.

The issue of the patients' private property accounts is an obvious one on which to invite in the Accounting Officer. Perhaps Mr. McCarthy will give some information on this. There may be a reason that its accounts are not in yet, as there are two sets of audits.