Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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Okay. We will certainly deal with that next week. The Deputies are right. While we deal with correspondence, sometimes the items of correspondence the committee has not received can be more important that the correspondence we have received.

The next item is financial statements and accounts received since the Thursday meeting. These are financial statements from the Financial Services Ombudsman Bureau for 2016. This is a clear audited opinion. It has the standard note on the provision of pension funding arrangements, which we see in many of the public bodies.

The next item is the sundry moneys account, which was established to hold certain receipts pending determination of the ultimate destination of the funds. Examples are sums in legal disputes, state aid recoveries, and EU refunds. Some €153 million went through the account and it is a clear, audited opinion. I am not familiar with this account. Obviously we can get it in the Oireachtas. Are these the main items that would be in it?