Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Question 154: To ask the Minister for Finance when he will make a response to the report of the Committee of Public Accounts on mismanagement at FÁS; his views on the recommendations; when he will implement them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19873/09]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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I understand that the Deputy is referring to the Committee of Public Account's Fourth Interim Report on Special Report 10 of the Comptroller and Auditor General and FÁS 2007 Accounts.

As the Deputy will be aware, a formal reply to every report of the Committee of Public Accounts is prepared in consultation with the Departments and Offices concerned in the form of a Minute of the Minister for Finance. All specific recommendations in the Committee's reports are considered carefully and are responded to in the Minute of the Minister.

The Committee's recommendations in its recent Report on FÁS are currently being examined by my Department and by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment. The Minute responding to the recommendations will be forwarded to the Committee as soon as possible. Copies of the Minute will also be circulated to Accounting Officers so as to alert them to significant issues raised by the Committee in its report.