Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 30 June 2022

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:30 am

Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

Certainly, we are moving to try to complete those much more expeditiously with HRI. I would hope that they will be available, certainly, this year, but whether they would be available, let us say, for September, I cannot really say at this stage. There is certainly the practice in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine that those accounts are brought to Cabinet - it is not the case for every set of financial statements - and there might be a processing time even after I sign off on it.