Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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Mr. O'Brien is moving on. I am a little frustrated because he is moving on and saying the HSE wants the 2013 audited accounts to be completed by the end of the first quarter of 2014. We are in the week before Christmas and I suspect it is possible some of the organisations have not yet completed their audited reports for 2012. I do not get the purpose in having externally audited reports. I accept that it is important compliance statements accompany them. However, the issue we are here to talk about is the internal audit report on the top-up payments which is a separate issue from the audited accounts and compliance statement. As Mr. O'Brien said, it is a broader issue. On the narrow issue of the internal audit report, we are nine months on and the HSE can only verify that eight bodies are in compliance and that more than 80% have been not undertaken. When Mr. O'Brien was here two weeks ago, he said he would meet all of the non-compliant organisations by Christmas.