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Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: The people who prepared the report are the people we should contact.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: Was Mr. Gleeson aware of the contents of the report before the 2019 Estimates were agreed?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: Is there anything in the report Mr. Gleeson wishes he was aware of when the Department was preparing the Estimates for last year and this year? The Department appears before a select committee to discuss its Estimate and we go into the Dáil to vote on it on the basis of this year or last year and what the Department believes to be the case. Two years after the fact the Department now...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: Does Mr. Gleeson get the point we make?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: Can Mr. Gleeson reassure us in that regard?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: I will try to streamline it a bit. Has the Comptroller and Auditor General seen the 2018 audited accounts yet?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: Of course. That is what I am coming to.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: The Comptroller and Auditor General has not seen them yet. We will have to wait for the audited accounts before we can get an answer to the question. I consider that the issues which are being raised are relevant to the audit of the 2018 financial accounts.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: I presume the Comptroller and Auditor General will do his job, as he always does. If information on the matter being raised here is made available in response to a parliamentary question or in a report, it would be incumbent on the Comptroller and Auditor General to have sight of it as part of his audit work for 2018. Then he will report to the Committee of Public Accounts.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: Bord na gCon can be brought in to answer questions as soon as we get those audited accounts.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: I am not making such a suggestion. I am saying we have not seen the figures. The Comptroller and Auditor General has yet to do his audit.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: Of course. It has not been completed.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: If the Deputy has a question that is specific to Bord na gCon, it is within the remit of this committee to bring in Bord na gCon so that such questions can be asked directly. I would say it would be far more useful to do that when we have the 2018 audited accounts from the Comptroller and Auditor General. That is merely a suggestion.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: It is clear that there is information in there. I am sure the relevant people who have to sign off on the 2018 accounts will need to have sight of such a report if it is commercially relevant. We have to leave the Comptroller and Auditor General do his job now.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: The Deputy is over time. I want to get other Deputies in.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: I call Deputy Connolly.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: The Department can give a breakdown.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: I thought that after six months a cheque had no validity anyway.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: Are these cheques the Department has not reissued or that were lost in the post? No, they are old uncashed cheques. We will ask for a note on that.