Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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I ask Mr. Morrin to send on the link. Those were the type of points I wanted to raise. We wanted to talk about this issue and we will be talking to the Department, which is the Accounting Officer to this committee. We wanted to get some hard information from the witnesses in terms of the report that they produced so that we are not just talking to the Department on a general basis. There is a volume of information on the record now for the Committee of Public Accounts to use as a base when we are discussing the matter with the Department in the next couple of weeks. We have a base of information that will help us in those discussions and maybe in formulating a short report on that matter in due course.

I thank all of our witnesses for coming in at short notice at this late hour of the evening. They are voluntary witnesses and we thank them for their input. It will help us to take this matter further with the Department when its representatives are here in the coming weeks. I thank both the witnesses from the CSO and the ESRI for their attendance here and for their valuable help. The clerk will pursue any follow-up information that has been mentioned. We have agreed that already.

The meeting is now adjourned until Thursday, 7 November, when, as already indicated, we will be meeting representatives from the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection.