Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 18 January 2024
Public Accounts Committee
Business of Committee
9:30 am
Mr. Seamus McCarthy:
The first is Pobal's financial statements for 2022, which received a clear audit opinion. The second is the Grangegorman Development Agency financial statements for 2022, which received a clear audit opinion. The third is Microfinance Ireland's financial statements for 2022, which received a clear audit opinion. The fourth is a special account for the Hepatitis C insurance scheme for 2022, which received a clear audit opinion. The fifth is the Health Research Board financial statements for 2022. It received a qualified audit opinion. In my view, the accounts give a true and fair view except that they account for the costs of retirement benefit entitlements of staff only as they become payable. That is standard for many health bodies and it is at the direction of the Minister for Health.
The sixth to the fourteenth, inclusive, are all subsidiaries of Horseracing Ireland. The accounts all relate to 2022 and they all received a clear audit opinion. I do not propose to read all of those out. The fifteenth is the National Concert Hall's financial statements for 2022. It received a clear audit opinion. The sixteenth is Tourism Ireland's, which is one of the North-South bodies, financial statements for 2022. It received a clear audit opinion. The seventeenth is the financial statements for the Competition and Consumer Protection for 2022, which received a clear audit opinion. The eighteenth is the financial statements for Oberstown Children Detention Campus for 2022, which received a clear audit opinion. Finally, the nineteenth is the Corporate Enforcement Authority. This is a new statutory body. The accounting period is 7 July 2022 to 31 December 2022, and it received a clear audit opinion.