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This chapter examines the costs associated by the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government associated with the remediation of land as directed by the European Court of Justice.

This chapter examines the control of expenditure on the education sector PPPs at the operational stage. In particular, it considers the adequacy of controls in place in respect of price indexation, service performance and benchmarking.

This examination focused on payments from the Strategic Innovation Fund, the arrangements to monitor attendance in primary and post-primary schools and the causes of an overrun on a capital development project at Cork Institute of Technology.

This report shows the results of a review of the commissioning of the facilities and the first year of operation of the project (August 2008 – July 2009). In addition, it examined the comparative financial performance over the previous year and the challenges in maximising toll revenue and how operations are monitored.

This is a report on the three energy schemes for the Residential Sector were reviewed in order to assess whether the financial assistance provided had been properly controlled and how the schemes were administered including the output and performance under each scheme and the extent to which the schemes had been evaluated.

This report examines property management associated with the decentralisation programme. The programme was substantially curtailed from October 2008. The audit sought to review the implications for OPW’s property management in the now prevailing market conditions and taking account of the conditions prevailing at the time property transactions were effected, to review the value achieved in the acquisition of property for the programme. In doing so the audit relied on both internal OPW benchmarking and an independent review by property consultants engaged by my Office.

This report on the National Convention Centre sets out to review, the quality of the initial business case, how costs and benefits were estimated, whether the procurement was conducted in accordance with government guidelines and the bid selected provided the best value and whether negotiations prior to the award of the contract protected the State’s position.

The examination focused on the outturn in terms of time, cost and delivery, progress in the areas of economic and social renewal and the challenges that remain to the successful completion of the programme.

This examination looks at the extent to which government departments and agencies are providing information and services on-line and are using internet-based technology to improve their efficiency. Ireland's performance compared to other countries was examined.

This report is based on an examination of the implementation of management information systems in the Institute of Technology Sector.The report sets recommendations on managing major IT procurement and on IT planning, monitoring and control.