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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Feb 2017)

Seán Fleming: We received this last week and it is part of our report. It is just clarifying information. We will note that. We have already examined that in our report. No. 308B 1-3 is correspondence dated 17 February 2017 from Maurice Quinn, Secretary General at the Department of Defence. This is in follow-up to the appearance of the Department before the committee on 26 January and its subsequent...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Feb 2017)

Seán Fleming: Nua Healthcare.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Feb 2017)

Seán Fleming: Can we note it?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Feb 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will agree to note it. The Deputy is happy to note that. That is correspondence received. The next item is on reports and statements of account received since the last meeting. I will open up this particular topic by acknowledging a report by the Comptroller and Auditor General was published on this issue during the week, that is, Special Report No. 95, financial reporting in the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Feb 2017)

Seán Fleming: As regards 2015 generally, the Comptroller and Auditor General will probably have to provide us with an update on how many of them met their three-month deadline that year.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Feb 2017)

Seán Fleming: Okay. We will return to that topic because there is a special report. The item before us today is to note the financial statements and accounts received since our meeting of Thursday, 16 February 2017. The first item is 4.1 - the Health and Safety Authority, which has a clean audit report. The next item, 4.2, is the Housing and Sustainable Communities Agency's €16.9 million...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Feb 2017)

Seán Fleming: Does that agency have its 2014 accounts?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Feb 2017)

Seán Fleming: So they were very much behind, but do they have both sets of accounts up to date for 2014 and 2015?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Feb 2017)

Seán Fleming: The 2014 one has been done since the Comptroller and Auditor General did his report.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Feb 2017)

Seán Fleming: Right, so the accounts were received by the Comptroller and Auditor General seven or eight months after the year-end.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Feb 2017)

Seán Fleming: Okay and that agency will be reporting.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Feb 2017)

Seán Fleming: Okay, thanks. The next item, 4.3, is the Ordnance Survey Ireland, clear audit opinion, and the referral of pension funding is mentioned. The next item, 4.4, is the Charities Regulatory Authority, which is a clear audited opinion. Item 4.5 is the National Council for Curriculum Assessment 2015 - a clear audit account. That is it for today.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Feb 2017)

Seán Fleming: Yes, they are a new organisation. The next item is our work programme.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Feb 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will ask the Comptroller and Auditor General if we have it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Feb 2017)

Seán Fleming: I think we received it yesterday.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Feb 2017)

Seán Fleming: We have just received the document that was produced by the Comptroller and Auditor General and we will circulate it for next week's meeting. Is that okay?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Feb 2017)

Seán Fleming: We have just received it and I have not yet looked at it. We will now deal with our work programme. Today the committee is dealing with the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport. Next Thursday, 2 March, it will be the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government. We will be dealing with the central fund of local authorities, as well as progress on land...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Feb 2017)

Seán Fleming: We might bring the HEA in earlier on in the process, rather than at the end of it, because it is the funding body. Are further ones planned on subsequent dates?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Feb 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will try to confine it to approximately two meetings. If we go to a third one that is fine, but I do not want to have five, six or seven meetings. That is only a suggestion, however. Are there any questions?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Feb 2017)

Seán Fleming: Right. We will see where we can accommodate that in next week's work programme.