Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is fully explained. The Comptroller and Auditor General is highlighting the explanation that is in the financial statement. It is all there if anybody has any queries. It is contained in the details of that. We will note and agree receipt of that set of accounts.

On the work programme, I am looking at next week. We have a short meeting on Wednesday next at 5 p.m. on the lack of submission of draft financial statements for the period of account ending in 2017. A fund in the Department of Education and Skills has not been presented for audit. In the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, the Local Government Fund has not yet been presented for audit. The Abbey Theatre has not presented its accounts for last year for audit. The ESRI has not presented its accounts to the Comptroller and Auditor General. We are bringing in the four of them to explain why, by the middle of May, they have not completed last year's accounts. The first step is merely to present them to the Comptroller and Auditor General. Based on the most recent information, there are 37 others which have not presented their accounts.