Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We are happy to speak to members of the public separately but we will conclude the meeting now. I thank those present in the Public Gallery for watching, learning and feeding back into the Committee of Public Accounts. If they feel we have something to contribute to the process or if they want to come back through the Committee of Public Accounts with an observation, we would be happy to address it down the road.

I thank all our witnesses from the national paediatric hospital development board, the Department of Health and the HSE and the Comptroller and Auditor General and his staff for their attendance. This is the witnesses' fourth appearance at an Oireachtas committee in a fortnight. I thank them for their forbearance. I am sure they are quite exhausted from coming into the committee rooms but it is such a big project, it was inevitable this was going to happen. That is all I will say.

Our next meeting will be on Thursday, 7 February 2019 when we will deal with the Appropriation Accounts 2017, Vote 1 - President's Establishment and Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach. The following session will deal with Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General, Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions and Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor.