Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

I did not prepare to address those matters but I can certainly give the Deputy a rough idea of the reports I have decided to publish. We are working on a number of items and it may be moot as to whether a report will issue. There are some that I have already signalled to the committee. The report on school transport is very near completion. We are actually doing a piece of work on the fair deal scheme and its associated issues. It may not touch on everything because some issues might not come within my scope.

Those would be ones that I would hope we will have in the autumn. We will have a follow on report from the one on the timeliness of financial reporting. I think that needs routine analysis and reporting to the committee so that we can give a push to get financial reporting done earlier. I would expect that we will have that done for the autumn. We can take the two reports together, the 2014 and 2015.