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This examination reviews the progress made by the Housing Agency in developing the LAGS sites since 2019 & the extent to which it implemented the three recommendations contained in Chapter 12 Progress under the Land Aggregation Scheme in the C&AG’s 2019 Annual Report.

The report provides an overview of the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications contract oversight arrangements for the delivery of the National Broadband Plan, the progress on delivery of the plan and the overall costs to date to the State.

This report examines progress made to date on a project to implement a financial management shared services model across a range of Government departments, offices and agencies; and reviews arrangements in place to complete the project.

This report examines three site purchases in the Dublin area to establish whether a well-defined business case was in place and how the Department of Education and Skills ensured value for money was achieved in relation to the purchase price. The three sites were bought for a combined total of just over €67 million and accounted for just over half of the Department’s expenditure on sites between 2014 and 2018. The Department is seeking to maximise the potential value of the sites by locating both a primary and a post-primary school on each of the two sites and is examining its policies in relation to site utilisation generally.

This chapter looks at the progress made by the Department of Health and the HSE in the development of primary care centres (PCCs) since 2010. As at March 2019 there were 127 PCCs in operation - around 36% of the targeted network. The chapter reviews the prioritisation of locations for development, and the delivery methods used.

This chapter reviews the operation of the R&D credit, including the scale of non-compliance with the scheme conditions and how Revenue systems and procedures can be improved in order to detect and deter non-compliance in this area.

This chapter reviews the expenditure on the Thornton project and examines the accounting for the value of capital works in the appropriation account of the Prison Service.

This chapter examines the management of Private Patient income in the Health Sector.

This examination was based on Bord na gCon's development of Limerick greyhound racing stadium.

This chapter examines the expenditure charged to Vote 24 Justice and Equality relating to the development of a new building for the State Pathology Service and the Dubline Coroner's Office, however, despite a significant financial outlay, no new premises was delivered.