Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There have been changes. That is the reason I am not sure about that so that would be helpful.

That concludes our business. I thank the witnesses for coming in today. It is a compliment to the EPA witnesses that we are finished a little early. There will be a routine meeting to discuss its annual financial statement. We chose to invite the witnesses. I am not sure when they were here last but the EPA is a significant State organisation and the witnesses answered the questions put to them clearly and concisely without any particular difficulty. From our point of view, this was a good meeting even though it was short. I stress that is because the EPA witnesses were good witnesses. We have people in here from whom we cannot get answers and the meetings drag on with members becoming a little cross when they do not get the information they want. It did not happen today. We look forward to receiving the balance of the information, which I ask would be sent to the secretariat within the next fortnight. I thank Ms Burke and her colleagues, the Department staff and the Comptroller and Auditor General and his officials for being here today. We have agreed that the clerk to the committee will seek any follow-up information and carry out the agreed actions mentioned during the course of the meeting.

We will adjourn until 9 May when we will meet An Garda Síochána in regard to the appropriation accounts for 2017 for Vote 20, An Garda Síochána; and the Comptroller and Auditor General's Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2017, chapter 7 on the management of overtime expenditure in An Garda Síochána.