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This is a report on the examination of the Lease Provision of Accommodation for the Probation and Welfare Service.

The examination considered whether review and control activity is informed by an assessment of the risk of fraud and error attaching to the different types of welfare payment and the effectiveness, in practice, of the Department’s reviews in recovering and deterring overpayments and how it evaluated its performance in that regard.

Although initially intended to be a short-term initiative, the WLI has been funded each year since 1993 at a total cost of €246 million. Over two-thirds of this funding (€172m) was spent in the five-year period focused on by this examination, 1998 to 2002.

This is a report on the review of the contracts in place with the providers of state subsidised transport services to the Islands the determination of correct tendering procedures had been followed in the awarding of contracts in the period 1997 to 2001, the verification that the services contracted for are actually being provided and the establishment that adequate financial management and control procedures are being exercised by the funding organisations.

this is a report determining the extent to which the Department has set objectives for managing and eradicating BSE, a Review and evaluation of the strategies and procedures put in place to manage and operate the programme to control and/or eradicate the disease, and the degree to which the programme has achieved its objectives and an ascertain of the involvement of the Department in research into the origins and transmission of the disease and the threat it poses to human health. Also, FEOGA Guarantee Expenditure under the Ewe Premium Scheme, Interest Payments under Prompt Payments legislation and the Ballaghaderreen Fire Case Settlement.

This is a report to ascertain and evaluate the actions taken and the procedures put in place to provide for the taking of the 2001 census of population, to examine and evaluate the specific procedures followed in placing contracts for goods and services, in reacting to unforeseen events and in protecting the State’s interest and to ascertain the cost of the project and evaluate the efficacy of the financial controls in operation.

The examination set out to review training and development activity across the civil service with a view to assessing how it could be improved in terms of its organisation, management and overall effectiveness.

This examination aimed primarily to establish how efficiently and effectively the fines system operates in relation to cases within the jurisdiction of the District Court.

This examination was concerned with the techniques used to determine the accuracy of weather forecasts and with the arrangements between Met Éireann and the Department for the management of the performance of the service.

This value for money examination was concerned with aspects of the economy and efficiency of the provision of the driver testing service.