Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The National Museum of Ireland got a clear audit opinion. The Legal Services Regulatory Authority was established on 1 Oct 2016 and this is its first set of financial statements covering the 15 months to 31 December 2017. It got a clear audit opinion. The Law Reform Commission got a clear audit opinion. Oifig Chomisinéir na dTeangacha Oifigiúla got a clear audit opinion. Mary Immaculate College got a clear audit opinion but attention is drawn to non-compliant procurement of €524,000. The Comptroller and Auditor General refers to the matter at the end of the financial statement.

Next, we will discuss the work programme. Today, we have the Kildare Wicklow ETB financial statements and the Comptroller and Auditor General's special report and also the Thorn report. The witnesses will come in shortly. The matter is subject to Garda investigation and we must be careful in that regard.

In the afternoon session we will deal with housing issues. We will have representatives from the Irish Council for Social Housing and the Approved Housing Body Interim Regulatory Committee.

Next week, on 28 February, we will deal with housing matters again. We will have the Secretary General before the committee in the morning to discuss housing matters and in the afternoon we will deal with the remainder of the Vote concerning the Local Government Fund. At that point we will conclude this section of the work on housing and we will include it in our next interim report. We had a meeting with them some time ago, today's meeting is helpful, and we will conclude then after that with our interim report.

On 7 March we will have Robert Watt, Paul Quinn and others to discuss oversight and implementation of capital projects. Paul Quinn will specifically discuss the role of the Office of Government Procurement, and officials in relation to the national paediatric hospital development board.

On Thursday, 14 March we have a small matter we did not get to include in the discussion on the Vote for the Department of the Taoiseach on the previous occasion, relating to the Central Statistics Office, CSO. I propose on that day we finish our work on broadband and have the Department back in. We had it in on 6 December and we had the private individuals in. We have received correspondence outlining the position in regard to state aid and we will ask for further information. There is no point in us closing the stable door after the horse has bolted in the sense that the tender has been out there since-----