Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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We will now move on to the work programme. We have no statements of account to consider. We will shortly welcome delegates from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine to discuss the 2017 appropriation account for Vote 30. In the afternoon, we have a private meeting with Mr. Allen Morgan, a former surveyor at the Office of Public Works. I ask as many members as possible to try to attend the afternoon session.

Next Thursday, we will have delegates from the Department of Health and the Health Service Executive here to discuss in public session the health Vote and the HSE's financial statement for 2018. The following Thursday, we have a discussion with delegates from the National Treasury Management Agency. The State Claims Agency will probably be our main focus in that discussion, so we might allocate separate time for that. On 11 July, we will discuss the accounts for the Houses of the Oireachtas, followed by a private meeting that afternoon to discuss the IBRC liquidation.

In addition, we will have a private meeting next Tuesday at 1 p.m. to consider the first input to our next periodic report, which is a discussion document produced by the secretariat. We might have to hold another meeting the following day, because we must complete our first reading of it next week if it is to be ready for publication before the recess. I have a word of caution for any journalists listening who may receive a copy of the document that is issued to committee members this week.

The document is not from the Committee of Public Accounts. It is a discussion document prepared by the secretariat, so people should draw conclusions or reprint potential conclusions at their peril. The report will be significantly amended by the committee over the course of our three or four meetings on the matter. Anyone who prints what they think is a conclusion is barking up the wrong tree. That is all I can say. They can print away if they want. I make that observation because it tends to happen, so I am putting out that public warning. That is the work programme and those are the private meetings. We might have to go into private session before the witnesses come in, or we can do the private session this afternoon. Some items correspond, but the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, IBRC, was mentioned.