Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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Thirty-seven in total. A letter has gone directly from me to each of the other 33 for a written explanation as to why they have not submitted their accounts and we will get that correspondence back. We want to make a point in the case of these four substantial organisations on corporate governance and the submission of accounts for audit. That is a specific meeting on Wednesday next. Two hours would be the maximum length of that meeting.

On Thursday, we will have the Higher Education Authority, UCC and Cork Institute of Technology appear in relation to the 2016 accounts. We will be dealing with that at 9 a.m. Perhaps, after that we can go on to the business of the committee. We want to start with that particular group early in the morning and the rest of the day's work programme is unchanged from the previous week. In the following week, we will have in the Garda Síochána in connection with an internal audit report on the IT contracts. The 14 June meeting is to be confirmed.

That is it, essentially, for the next week or two. We will note the work programme. We will come back to it at every meeting. We will come back to it again on Thursday next.

As there is no other issue in private session, I am now asking the members about the volume of material we received last night.