Pyrite Resolution Act 2013

Accountability of chief executive of Housing Agency to Oireachtas Committees

25. (1) The Housing Agency shall keep in such form as may be approved by the Minister, with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, all proper and usual accounts of all moneys received or expended by it under this Act and, in particular, shall keep in such form as aforesaid all such special accounts as the Minister, with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, may from time to time direct.

(2) The financial year of the Housing Agency for the purposes of this Act shall be the period of 12 months ending on 31 December in any year, and, in the case of the year in which the establishment day falls, the period commencing on the establishment day and ending on 31 December in that year.

(3) Accounts under subsection (1) shall be submitted annually by the Housing Agency, on or before such date as the Minister shall direct, to the Comptroller and Auditor General for audit and, immediately after the audit, a copy of the accounts and a copy of the Comptroller and Auditor General’s report on the accounts shall be presented to the Minister who shall, as soon as may be, cause copies thereof to be laid before each House of the Oireachtas.