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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.

Under a 2014 statutory instrument, the Department is entitled to recover the certain benefit and assistance payments provided to an individual who subsequently receives a compensation award for those injuries. This report examines the operation of the scheme and the extent of recovery of payments by the Department.

This report reviews the progress made by Tusla and the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in implementing the recommendations made in Chapter 11 of the Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2015 - Guardian ad litem Service.

This chapter reviews the value for money achieved for expenditure of €6.5 million in the provision of night vision technology and training on Search and Rescue (SAR) helicopters under the remit of the Department of Transport and the Irish Coast Guard.

This chapter on the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme outlines governance arrangements and presents information on HAP trends, including increases in cost over time. In 2020, the Department spent almost €465 million supporting nearly 60,000 HAP tenants.

The chapter examines how the Social Welfare Appeals Office manages the appeals that are made against the Department of Social Protection. It examined if the Appeals Office had a fair and efficient system and if reviews of appealed cases were used to improve operations.

This examination focuses on the governance structures adopted between Revenue and the Department of Social Protection, the process in place to verify the eligibility of claims under the Scheme and the subsequent recovery of subsidies in excess of entitlement.

This report assesses the performance information presented by the Department in relation to its spending on social housing, with the objective of establishing whether it presents a complete and accurate account of what is being achieved for the expenditure incurred.

The pyrite remediation scheme was set up to remediate dwellings that were significantly damaged by pyrite. This report assesses the scheme progress to the end of 2019 and considers the cost of the scheme introduced to remedy the problem.

This report reviews the operation of controls over catering expenditure incurred by the Irish Prison Service. It also examines control issues in respect of a number of related or ancillary services operating within prisons but not funded by the Prison Service.