Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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That concludes our deliberations on this matter. The moral of the story relates to non-competitive tendering in third level institutes. We can identify a couple of topics here that will be on our agenda for the autumn. As I stated, we do not normally have such a large number of accounts. However, six months of accounts have built up since the committee last met in January. Normally, we would only deal with a handful of accounts.

We move on to the next item on the agenda, namely, the work programme. The clerk has circulated a draft work programme for the period until the recess in two weeks. The Comptroller and Auditor General has highlighted the public bodies on which he must focus. As this is our first meeting, I took the liberty of ensuring we have some work lined up for the period until the end of July. I hope members will approve this proposal retrospectively. I chose the Office of Public Works because the Comptroller and Auditor General has just completed a special report - a value-for-money exercise on strategic planning for flood risk management - and officials from the Office of Public Works will be available to appear before the committee next week. I do not have the details of the report but we will have a full discussion on the matter next week.