Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

The environment fund is outstanding. I refer to the letter from the Secretary General, when he said the Department and officials from the Comptroller and Auditor General agreed bilaterally that the fund account would be submitted by 30 June each year. We accepted that the Department would present it only by 30 June. The previous year, we received the fund account in September. We asked for it in March together with the appropriation account but it said it was not able to do that. While we have accepted receipt by 30 June, we have not agreed that is appropriate. It should be presented earlier.