Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 4 October 2018

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee (Resumed)

9:00 am

Photo of Seán FlemingSeán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We will come to the work programme in a few minutes, but it certainly has to be on our work programme. We will have a discussion on that in a few minutes.

The next item is statements and accounts received since the last meeting. This will take a few minutes because since July, 101 statements and accounts have been submitted to this committee. Normally, we note ten or 20 every week but, due to the summer period, members will have to bear with me. I will move through them as fast as I can, although it does not sound too bad. There are 70 financial statements and the Comptroller and Auditor General's report, which has 40 Votes for each of the State bodies. That is one composite document, but there are approximately 70. If some members have issues, we can hold over a particular one for a later date, but we will try to move on them as fast as we can. We will give it a few minutes and then come back to our work programme before we go into public session. All of these have been received over the summer period.

The first one is 4.1, the Personal Injuries Assessment Board, clear audit opinion. It assesses compensation entitlements in personal injury claims. The next is 4.2, Enterprise Ireland, clear audit opinion. Attention is drawn to expenditure where the procurement procedures did not comply with public procurement guidelines. I suspect it will not be the only public body about which that remark will be made. I am marking that one. Enterprise Ireland's annual turnover for 2017 is €350 million. The next is 4.3, Solas, funding of €603 million. It plans and co-ordinates further education and training. Again, there are issues of non-compliance-----

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