Public Accounts Committee

Land Development Agency tells TDs there’s ‘huge interest’ in Shankill properties despite high prices

Housing assistance payment and Rental Accommodation Scheme fail to provide the State with long-term assets, report states

TDs to hear Land Development Agency has pipeline of 37 sites to deliver about 17,000 homes

TD says proposed €70m project for Dublin could turn into a ‘mini national children’s hospital’

Public Accounts Committee hearing: Kerstin May resigned as UL chief last June and is on leave in new post as professor of visual culture

Patrick O’Donovan agrees with view of Pashcal Donohoe, who said he was ‘embarrassed’ at price paid for structure

State agreements being entered into with contractors are not fit for purpose, according to Sinn Féin TD Brian Stanley

Value-for-money report also reveals Revenue assessment that retailer Dunnes Stores owed State more than €36 million was settled for €5 million

Board overseeing €2.2 billion project says contractors will ‘not be given another cent’ as Taoiseach warns of penalties

Former RTÉ chairwoman on ‘vicious’ Dáil hearings, a missed opportunity to fund the national broadcaster and life after being in the public glare of the Montrose psychodrama

OPW says public money must be spent ‘transparently’ as Minister of State confirms review into cost

Dublin public relations agency Drury provided short biographical notes on each TD

‘Continued failure by BAM’ to deliver a compliant programme of works for facility, Public Accounts Committee told

Barriers were erected in May along 2km-stretch of canal to prevent homeless migrants pitching tents

Almost all of the body’s €100 million in income for 2022 came from fees for its services including NCTs and driver testing

Mr Allen (79) served as a Minister of State and as chairman of the Public Accounts Committee

Angela Kerins appeared before the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee amid public controversy about the charity sector in 2014

Lawyers for former Rehab chief executive claim client subjected to ‘witch hunt’ style of questioning by committee

Plan questioned after similar facility, ‘the Explorium’, reopened this year after pandemic

‘Major overhaul’ needed in how public bodies and government are signing off on contracts, says Brian Stanley

Development marked by missed deadlines and ballooning costs

With massive State investment planned over the next few years in a range of areas, it is vital that lessons are learned and applied in future big projects

Hospital will not be able to admit patients until August 2025 at the earliest, public spending watchdog hears

The project has been beset by delays and spiralling costs but it was expected that ‘substantial completion’ of the hospital would happen by October 29th

Staffing issues mean Naval Service can deploy just two of eight vessels for patrols, with one left on standby

Independent TD Verona Murphy makes criticism as senior Department of Defence officials appear at Public Accounts Committee

Controls to properly regulate the transaction were ‘overridden’, committee told

Dáil committee told that ‘key information’ was not available before deal exceeding €11m was approved in 2022

Public has grown weary of the scandals within national broadcaster, says Brian Stanley

Britain says it has no legal obligation to accept returns under post-Brexit arrangement, but requests have been accepted by both

Considerable anger on Public Accounts Committee over State body’s failure to appear

Figure includes estimated €300 million on current plan to connect Dublin airport to the city centre and €150m on past initiatives

National Transport Authority to appear before Public Accounts Committee in relation to programme overhauling Dublin’s bus network

Figure for first three months of the year is 75 per cent higher than comparable figure for last year

Number of people claiming international protection in first 12 weeks of 2024 was 75% ahead of same period last year, committee to hear

Garda Commissioner told the Public Accounts Committee he did not agree that the investigation lacked a common-sense approach

Details of the cost of the agreement with unnamed staff member are included in National Gallery’s annual report

Dáil’s spending watchdog also hears of payroll overpayments at the hospital of €288,513 in 2022

Broadcaster should come back under statutory remit of C&AG, Public Accounts Committee says

Report’s real value is in holding the massive amount of evidence on RTÉ scandal in single document