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

Do members wish to raise any matters regarding the accounts and financial statements? Is the list of accounts and financial statements agreed? Agreed. As usual, they will be published as part of our minutes.

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

No. 2358 B, dated 1 February 2024, is correspondence from the private secretary to the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Deputy Catherine Martin. It provides an update in respect of the final Mazars' report in relation to RTÉ’s barter account. The correspondence advises that it is not possible at this point to give a guaranteed timeline for the submission of the report to the Minister. It is proposed that we note and publish this correspondence. Is that agreed? Agreed. Suffice to say that it is time for all the reports to be wrapped up at this stage. We hoped a lot of this would be done by the end of last year, and that this particular one, if it was not so, would come very early in the new year. We will note and publish the correspondence from the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.

A draft work programme discussion document, which is displayed on the screens, was circulated to members. They will see the running order is as follows. On 22 February, we will meet with the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media in relation to programme D of the 2022 appropriation accounts, and Sport Ireland in relation to its financial statements for 2022. Representatives from the FAI and the Schoolboys/girls Football Association of Ireland, SFAI, will also attend this meeting.

On 29 February, we will meet with Tusla in relation to its financial statements for 2022. Representatives of the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth have also been invited to attend.

On 7 March, we will engage with Inland Fisheries Ireland in respect of its financial statements for 2022. Officials from the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications have also been invited to attend. We have confirmation of all of those.

After the March recess, we will meet with An Garda Síochána in relation to the 2022 appropriation account for Vote 20 – An Garda Síochána. Officials from the Department of Justice have also been invited to attend.

Then there is the Easter break. The first meeting after the Easter break will be on 11 April. The secretariat received confirmation only this week on this one. We have confirmed we will meet with the University of Limerick in relation to its financial statements for 2022. One area of interest is governance and associated due diligence of the university's purchase of the Limerick city centre site in 2019 and the purchase of a number of houses for student accommodation in Rhebogue. If there are other matters, members can flag them and we will have them forwarded to the witnesses.

Moving on to 18 April, we will meet with officials from the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in relation to the 2022 appropriation account for Vote 40. International protection accommodation has been flagged as an area of interest. I would ask that if Members have any other specific areas of interest for meetings, they would bring them to the attention of the committee and to the secretariat in the meantime in order that they can be flagged.

I call Deputy McAuliffe, who is joining us online.