Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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Okay. We will return to that topic because there is a special report. The item before us today is to note the financial statements and accounts received since our meeting of Thursday, 16 February 2017. The first item is 4.1 - the Health and Safety Authority, which has a clean audit report.

The next item, 4.2, is the Housing and Sustainable Communities Agency's €16.9 million turnover. It has a clear audited opinion and it relates to the 2015 accounts. It provides services and supports for social housing to the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government. Perhaps the Comptroller and Auditor General can explain a reference in his report to the Housing and Sustainable Communities Agency. At the end of the 2014 audit that agency seems to have been substantially in arrears, according to page 30 of the report. Is that the same organisation we will be asking the Department about?