Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Comptroller and Auditor General will clarify that next week.

No. 2203B is from Technological University Dublin, which says it submitted its accounts on 29 May. That is good.

We also have a letter from Mr. Brendan Gleeson, Secretary General of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, regarding the financial statements for the fishery harbour centres. I am not completely happy with this. He states that the emphasis in the Department is on getting the Vote accounts ready for audit, which is fine, and that, as this is now well advanced, the Department has been liaising with the staff of the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General and has confirmed that the statements for the fishery harbour centres will be submitted for audit later this month. The Comptroller and Auditor General can give us an update next week, although I would still ask the Secretary General to get these statements in on time in future and to ensure that the Department has the resources to do so.

The next item is No. 2231B from the Secretary General of the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection. This is on a different topic. We will hold this item over until the next meeting. It is not on the topic about which we are talking.

No. 2232B is from the HSE and has regard to the account for the long-stay repayment scheme, the long-stay repayment scheme donation account and the private property account. The HSE says that the first two of these accounts have been submitted and the patient private property account was submitted on 3 June. They are all coming in. The reason I am reading these out is that some of them may be of public interest.

The next item is from Dublin City University, DCU. It has sent a long letter. It states that there was a once-off issue due to the DCU incorporation project. That involved the amalgamation of St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra, the Mater Dei Institute of Education and the Church of Ireland College of Education into DCU. We understand that this was a start-up process. As a result of all of this, DCU had to restate its previous financial statements, which had been audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General and KPMG. I can understand that involved quite a bit of once-off work. The university says that, notwithstanding that, it is working closely with the Comptroller and Auditor General and KPMG in this regard. The Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General is scheduled to begin its audit on 24 June. We will get an update on that. The letter is quite detailed. We will note and publish it, even though I believe it is already in the public domain.

The next item is No. 2234B, which is correspondence from St. Angela's college, Sligo, which states that its audit was scheduled to commence on 17 June. As it is now 20 June, I take it that the accounts are in. We will get the update.

University College Cork states that its audit is due to commence with a site visit on 24 June. I take it that the accounts will be submitted in time for that.

No. 2238B is from the Legal Aid Board. Its accounts were submitted on 31 May.

The next item is from the Church of Ireland united diocese of Dublin and Glendalough with regard to the Church of Ireland College of Education. It states that the college was being wound up.