Public Accounts Committee

Public Accounts Committee says it was told that €40m being stored as evidence in Garda stations across country

Hospital says it does not have enough core staff as it responds to controversy over €1.44m in spending to company owned by staff

Revenue to tell Dáil committee that almost €13m has been spent berthing and maintaining MV Matthew after record cocaine haul

Tusla confirms it ‘does not conduct age assessment in the strict statutory sense’ on people presenting as unaccompanied minors

Inland Fisheries Ireland refutes finding set out in external investigator’s report commissioned by Eamon Ryan

Force paid €1,750 a month for Drew Harris’s use of property between 2018 and 2025 to Office of Public Works

The Office of Public Works - which is under a legal obligation to deliver a building for the project - appeared before the Dáil’s spending watchdog

Residents had to be moved from Newtownmountkennedy site to alternative accommodation last year due to severe weather

PAC chair criticises ‘failures’ at Department of Culture as findings recommends stronger oversight

Report by Dáil watchdog comes after botched IT project at Arts Council and separate issue with X-ray scanner at National Gallery

Plus: Ryder Cup experiences in far-flung destinations; a prominent Romanian’s beef with Bram Stoker; and the councillor who doesn’t believe in a potholing God

Homeless charity’s former chief approved spending at Kerdiffstown House in Co Kildare, including €300,000 for driveway work

TDs to hear damning statement from long-time McVerry official

Charge on properties at agency’s campus in Dublin’s Liberties is in addition to €1.6m vacant site levy for warehouse

Beaumont chief says overspend was due to underestimation of complexities, staff turnover and industrial relations issues

St James’s Hospital paid radiologists for additional imaging services due to ongoing surge in demand

Water utility tells Dail Public Accounts Committee it would lose staff if current pay model not retained

Further delays to key projects will have ‘serious consequences’ for housing and economic growth

Governance of Ireland’s public hospital structure is complex and now Ministers are involved in a long-running dispute

State body says it had sought specialist planning and engineering advice on effects metro system may have on its properties

Committee members raise concerns about processes for assessing age of unaccompanied asylum seekers

Fewer than half the gardaí working in Gaeltacht areas have working proficiency in Irish, PAC hears

Public Accounts Committee to be told there is no hope of recovering losses

Dáil Public Accounts Committee hears that IT project was never put out to tender

Office of Public Works insists new structures are now in place to protect against overspending but critics are not so sure

Moored in the port of Cork, MV Matthew is considered an environmental, ecological and economic risk

Clerk of Dáil tells Public Accounts Committee controversy over €300,000 bike shed caused reputational damage

Government seeks to implement lessons learned from national children’s hospital construction

Organisation unveils newly refurbished housing complex on Townsend Street in Dublin

Water to be extracted at Parteen Basin in Co Tipperary and piped 170km to the capital

Dáil’s spending watchdog seeks ‘rationale’ from department officials for not publishing list of contracts

Issued centred on clash between Government policy on term limits for chief executives in State sector and rights under employment law

Family firms linked to Seamus ‘Banty’ McEnaney have been paid large sums for emergency accommodation, which critics lay at the door of the State’s ‘repeated short-termism’

Chairperson has sought assurances from Government that NCH will not have to fund multi-million euro redevelopment

Spending data from 2021 to last month shows OPW spent over €17,000 last year as it faced rolling controversies

Public Accounts Committee and Minister hears that consultant paid €40,000 in 2018 to treat patients on his waiting list at private hospital

Closure notices issued to 10 nursing homes in 2024 and seven have closed so far, committee hears

Dáil Public Accounts Committee expected to question agency over legal cases and protected disclosure

A critic of ‘warmongering’ and a Gaeilgeoir, Independent TD was not in the mix during Coalition talks

Issue relates to deductions from retirement benefits of former public service staff with high-value pensions