Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 23 May 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Financial Statements of the Local Government Fund
2017 Financial Statements of the National Training Fund
2017 Financial Statements of the Economic and Social Research Institute
2017 Financial Statements of the Abbey Theatre

5:00 pm

Mr. Neil Murray:

That is the issue. What we need to do is go through it, literally, line by line, to see. We occupy a slightly strange position in that we are funded by the Arts Council rather than directly by the State. We occupy a slightly anomalous position in that way. We need to go through the whole document, literally, line by line, to work out which bits actually are relevant to our operation. Certainly, if we can accelerate that process, we will, but that is the timeline that has been agreed with the Comptroller and Auditor General.