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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: That has been done. It is aware of that. I would hope that we would have a proper response by next week.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: We are awaiting that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: There has been direct contact between Deloitte and the committee secretariat. We not got a formal response yet. It is being watched on a daily basis. We will come back to it next week. We will make a point of making sure that issue is on our agenda for next week. The next item is statements received since the last meeting. The Cork Institute of Technology 2016 accounts have a clear...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: Ask the Comptroller and Auditor General.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: If the Deputy wants, she can take it up directly with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in her own time, but if she wants to come back to the committee we will follow it up as well.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: On accounts submitted, I want to raise one other issue. This week, the Comptroller and Auditor General published his special report No. 99 on public sector financial reporting for 2015. I thank the Comptroller and Auditor General for his work. Briefly, there are 224 semi-State, health, education, and North-South agencies with a turnover of €43.7 billion. We are not talking about...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: I am speaking of 2015.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: There is still a handful.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: I am referring to the 2015 accounts.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: I am taking it step by step. For 2015, there is a handful still outstanding, and some of them are the education and training boards, ETBs.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: We are going to get that now. I expect it will be that there were complications. However, despite all the excuses up to now, we consider that they have failed to meet their duties and we want them to account for their failures regarding the 2015 accounts, and not with some soft explanation. We will be writing to them saying that we want them carried out immediately. Next week, we will...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: The meeting next week is with the Department of Education and Skills, and the principal offenders are under the remit of that Department. The majority of them are in the third level education sector-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will ask for that next week-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: -----at the beginning of the meeting. I call Deputy Catherine Murphy.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: We are the gatekeepers

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: Great.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: Are the deadlines specified legally?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: Before we issue those letters we will make sure that what we say is in synch with what the Comptroller and Auditor General has already issued and we might move it on another month or so.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: It is normally three months.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Nov 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will ensure the letters tie in with that.