Public Accounts Committee

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

PAC set to question NTPF and CHI over controversies over use of millions allocated to tackle waiting lists

Concerns raised about overreliance on appointments paid for by National Treatment Purchase Fund

Nine years after revelations, service to guard interest of children in care proceedings remains unregulated

Public funds being used to subsidise commercial activity, according to Comptroller and Auditor General

Charity has twice refused to appear before Public Accounts Committee despite receiving €15m bailout

Refusal to attend not acceptable, says Fine Gael TD and PAC member James Geoghegan

Despite assurances, patients not expected in facility for at least another year

The State has pulled the plug on a multi-million euro deal at the last minute, throwing the public-private partnership model into doubt

Governing body taking legal action to try to recoup €4m, Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee told

Council is due to appear before Public Accounts Committee on Thursday concerning failed €6.7m project

Fury erupted in Government in February when it emerged the council had scrapped plans for a programme joining five existing systems

Construction contractor BAM says site worker resources higher than expected for this stage of build

Delay has been confirmed to Public Accounts Committee, which will hold a meeting on the progress of the new hospital on Thursday

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