Department of Public Expenditure and Reform

Finishing touches to agreement in process of being nailed down by Department of Public Expenditure and Department of Arts and Media

Rachel Kenny got severance after it was found she had ‘no case to answer’ in relation to conflict of interest claims

High profile semi States including ESB, DAA, VHI and Bord na Móna have called for greater flexibility on pay to retain talent

Paper published by Department of Public Expenditure says subsidies of up to €100,000 available, and says further consideration needed on how better to target supports so State funds are maximised

Report by Department of Public Expenditure says under strategic housing development initiative judicial review process may have been acting as ‘pseudo-appeals mechanism’

Tusla’s chief executive gave evidence in High Court in reviews of cases of five children who cannot get into special care because of shortage of places

Minister for Finance spends as much time on the sidelines as he can watching his children’s sporting exploits

Prof Kerstin Mey not leaving university but changing to senior academic role

The State risks losing out as a bidding war breaks out for major projects between the big countries, including huge subsidies for US companies to encourage them to invest at home

Department of Public Expenditure says it is ‘actively engaging with stakeholders to develop more streamlined process’ for those retiring under pension changes introduced in 1995

Department of Health told it was ‘imperative’ spending remained within allocation – but there was little surprise when it didn’t

New enterprise support package expected to be approved by Cabinet on Tuesday

Coalition of representative bodies seeks Government to re-introduce supplementary pension to bridge gap until State pension age

HSE officers issues letter saying price increases hitting funds needed for patient care ‘in a growing challenging environment’

Current targets are based on published population projections from the 2016 census. Unfortunately, those projections are a serious underestimate

Ministers and office of Taoiseach became involved in issue surrounding departure of ex-deputy director general, files show

Newly-released files reveal disagreement behind the scenes over package to Dean Sullivan

Health service argues there has been a further increase in demand for hospital services while measures to tackle expenditure are under way

Most of the top mandarins running Government departments were educated in public schools, with some attending college at night or later in their career

Ballots at State’s biggest unions record margins of more than 90 per cent in favour

Most advisers aren’t on highest levels of Civil Service pay and they have none of the job stability of a civil servant

Paschal Donohoe’s department says spending bids ‘exceed’ funding

Survey by the Institute of Directors Ireland comes as fallout from RTÉ's payments controversy continues to play out

Dean Sullivan’s redundancy payment in line with Government policy, according to Paschal Donohoe

Agreement, reached following mediation, was authorised by Department of Health and Department of Public Expenditure

Proposed €120m National Transport Authority deal sparks query over whether facility is too big

Department said chairperson’s time commitment had almost trebled

Unions have said that if there is no agreement, they will meet next Thursday to begin the process of balloting on industrial action over pay

Government department ‘provides all employees with equal opportunities’, it says

The selection of examples is an analytical strength, ranging from conflict in Sri Lanka, to the drugs policy of the US and the migration policy of the EU

Ireland could absorb fall-off in revenue generated from tax into its budget surplus, says Minister for Public Expenditure

The future pay of the State’s public sector health professionals, teachers, gardaí, army, local authority workers and civil servants among others will all be up for discussion over the coming weeks

About 35 Defence Forces personnel have volunteered so far, less than 20 per cent of what is required

Minister for Public Expenditure makes warning after reports that some RTÉ staff could be offered eight weeks pay per year under voluntary redundancy terms

Unions keen to pursue a deal with pay increases that address impact of cost-of-living issues on their members

Only senior officers who applied for role of deputy commissioner, which oversees State security, came from foreign police forces

No one in HSE expressed interest in two deputy chief medical officer posts when they were advertised

Just as a government worthy of the name must pass a budget that is credible, the health service must be able to live within its allocation

Paschal Donohoe announces change to rules to allow non-European citizens to work as civil servants

Longer-term plans tend not to be popular in Irish politics because they force decisions to be made - like how to pay for them. But it can’t be avoided anymore