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

Since no members wish to raise issues related to those accounts and financial statements, can we agree to note them? Agreed. As usual, the list of accounts and financial statements will be published as part of our minutes.

Let me move on to correspondence. As previously agreed, items not flagged for discussion at this meeting will continue to be dealt with in accordance with the proposed actions that have been circulated. Decisions taken by the committee concerning correspondence are recorded in the minutes of the committee’s meetings and published on the committee’s web page.

The first category of correspondence under which members have flagged items is category B, which relates to correspondence from Accounting Officers and their Ministers and follow-up to committee meetings.

No. R2177B, from Mr. Ray Mitchell, assistant national director of the HSE, and dated 13 October, provides information requested by the committee during its meeting with HSE representatives on 5 October 2023. It is proposed to note and publish this correspondence. Is that agreed? Agreed. I have flagged this item for discussion. We submitted six different questions regarding HSE matters. One relates to the timeline for the integrated financial management system. I see in the information supplied that the early build-and-test element was abandoned. It was decided that it should be terminated, in addition to the contract, and that this should be done on a no-fault basis. A new public procurement process started in 2022. The delivery date, if I am reading the graph correctly, is 1 January 2025. This has been a bone of contention. It refers to the period after the planning and design stage. That is my understanding. Is it that of the Comptroller and Auditor General?