Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We will conclude.

Just to be correct or precise about it, the last published appropriation accounts are the 2016 accounts which were published by the Comptroller and Auditor General at the end of September last year. The ones for 2017 will not be published until Friday week, well into the campaign. We are not waiting beyond that. The last set of figures we are going on are the 2016 audited accounts.

Mr. Martin Fraser comments in a specific paragraph where he confirms the audit committee has not met and the chairman was not there. He goes on to say that once the President's Establishment audit committee is up and running, it is expected an internal audit of the office will be then scheduled.

That is the last written issue on the public record from the Secretary General, the Accounting Officer, of the Department of the Taoiseach. The only reason we are now aware that an audit committee is in place - it must have happened since then - is because this committee indicated it was going to consider this matter. Mr. Martin Fraser has volunteered that information that he has an audit committee in place. That is what he says in his letter. His function is in relation to the audit committee.