Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, Independent)
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69. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the Comptroller and Auditor General signed off on the Citizen Information Board's accounts for 2017; and if so, when (details supplied). [26531/18]

Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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The Citizens Information Board (CIB) is the statutory body responsible for providing information, advice (including money and budgeting advice service) and advocacy services on a wide range of public and social services. CIB delivers on this remit through a network of service delivery partners including the Citizens Information Services (CIS) and the Money Advice and Budgeting Services (MABS) whose governance arrangements are in the process of being reorganised from 93 local companies to a regionally based 16 company model comprising 8 CIS and 8 MABS companies. Section 22 of the Comhairle Act, 2000 requires that the annual accounts, approved by the Board, are submitted to the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) and the 2017 accounts have already been submitted by CIB for audit. When the audit is complete, a copy of the annual accounts and the report of the C&AG will be presented to the Board and to the Minister and will then be laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas, as required by legislation.

I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy.