Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 16 February 2017
Public Accounts Committee
Business of Committee
9:00 am
Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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Yes. The next item is No. 4.3, a clear audit report for Grangegorman Development Agency. No. 4.4 is the Gathering Project 2013 Limited, and the 2012 and 2013 accounts, on which there are clear audit opinions. No. 4.6 is a clear audit opinion for the Royal Irish Academy of Music. The internal financial control system discloses that the academy applies the minimum threshold of €50,000 for advertising and e-Tenders contracts for supplies and services, rather than the lower threshold of €25,000 which is set in the public procurement guidelines. I propose we immediately write to them for an explanation of why they are doing that. We will consider the response when we get it. The last thing is NSCDA Operations Limited, which operates the national sports campus as a subsidiary of Sport Ireland, on which there is a clear audit opinion.