Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

At this stage we have exhausted all the questions. I thank the officials from the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, and the official from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform who got off light today. They had no questions today. I regularly compliment the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection and some other Departments for providing good information. Where they do not have the information, they are able to get their hands on the information and send it on to us, which we appreciate. It helps us. It also helps the public have a bit of confidence in what is happening in the system when they see hard questions being asked and good answers being given. That is good for everybody. There are other Departments I cannot say that about.

I thank the Comptroller and Auditor General and his staff for being present.

On behalf of the committee, I request that the clerk to the committee to seek any follow-up information and carry out actions that we have requested. Is that agreed? Agreed.

The next public meeting of our committee is on Tuesday, 19 November, when we will have the Courts Service in in respect of its 2018 appropriations accounts. We will have a private meeting on Tuesday next at approximately 4 p.m.