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This chapter examines the progress to end 2024 in the delivery of primary care centres, and the usage of a sample of operational primary care centres. It also examines the implementation of recommendations included the 2018 report of the Comptroller and Auditor General.

The Health Service Executive’s integrated financial management system (IFMS) currently in development is critical to the HSE’s operation and financial reporting. This report examines the development, the progress of the rollout and the costs incurred by the HSE on the system.

Health Service Executive funding is routed through the Department of Health. In 2022 there was a difference in the voted expenditure and determined amount. An update is provided on the Parliamentary Budget Office paper on the alignment of funding between the Vote and the HSE.

This report presents the findings of an examination of the emergency procurement of ventilators by the Health Service Executive in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. The report recommends that the Department of Public Expenditure NDP Delivery and Reform/Office of Government Procurement consider developing practical guidance for public bodies on the use of advance payments.

This report reviews the impact of the cyber attack in May 2021 on the Health Service Executive (HSE) and other health bodies. It examines the HSE's cyber attack preparedness, the financial impact of the attack and the status of implementation of PWC's post incident review recommendations.

This chapter provides an overview of the State Claims Agency’s (SCA) management of the Clinical Indemnity Scheme and focuses on incident reporting, claims and the key cost drivers. It also provides an overview of how the SCA ensures that lessons learned from past cases are used to inform future outcomes and projections and the system of accountability for claims incurred.

This report provides an overview of the Nursing Homes Support Scheme — generally referred to as ‘Fair Deal’ — after its first ten years of operation. It includes a review of the weekly charge rates for the provision of nursing home care, management of demand for the scheme, assessment of residents’ contributions to the cost of their care, and State lending to nursing home residents.

This chapter reviews the Department of Children and Youth Affairs oversight of Pobals administration of early learning and childcare funding programmes 2015 to 2018 and the controls in place to ensure that payments are appropriate and that the quality of learning and care, childcare staff and facilities is of an acceptable standard.

This chapter shows the trend in costs of compensation and treatment for individuals infected by the administration of contaminated blood and blood products between the 1960s and 1990s. It provides an overview of the strategies adopted and the progress of the treatment programme.

This chapter considers how the HSE controls the level of private activity in acute public hospitals and whether the HSE's performance measure meets the criteria of a good performance measure.