Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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We will ask for a full explanation of how that arose, how the figure of €853,000 was settled with the Revenue Commissioners and the lessons learned.

An Bord Pleanála received a clear audit opinion on its 2017 accounts.

Finally, the 2017 appropriation accounts, published with the report on the accounts of the public services last Friday, covering 42 different Votes, all got clear audit opinions. However, there are some interesting chapters with commentary on at least half of them, to which we will return. That will keep us busy for the year. That is a total of 101 financial statements that have been noted, recorded and published, with comments on some.

The next item is our work programme. Today, we are dealing with Teagasc. Next week we are dealing with the OPW and as part of that work programme, we are sending the letter we received from Mr. Alan Morgan, with some redactions, to the OPW for comment. That letter will be noted and published and we will discuss the issue with the OPW next week. On 18 October we will meet representatives from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to discuss the accounts for 2017. We never got to do the 2016 accounts so we will have to include them too but our focus will be on the most recent set of figures.

In terms of other issues, the Scally-----