Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

There is a huge imbalance, and anyone who has sat on such boards will tell us that.

Are the accounts and statements agreed? Agreed.

The next item is correspondence and items that members have flagged. Item B is correspondence from Accounting Officers and Ministers, in follow up to the Committee of Public Accounts.

No. 222 B is from Mr. Liam McGrath, acting chief executive officer of Tipperary ETB, dated 27 November 2020, and provides information requested by the committee in relation to non-compliant procurement. This is for 2018 but we are discussing 2019 also. Members will see a table set out in the correspondence. Deputy Munster - who has just popped out of the room temporarily - wanted to discuss this, so we will hold off on it for a minute.

No. 223 is from Mr. Ray Mitchell, assistant national director of the HSE, dated 27 November, and provides information requested by the committee relating to non-compliant procurement to the value of €52.7 million. We can agree to note this correspondence and publish this. A number of members have indicated that we should speak on it. As we will see when we come to our work programme, the HSE will be before the committee in early February. I have flagged this along with Deputies Matt Carthy, Catherine Murphy and Imelda Munster.