Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
The Comptroller and Auditor General issued his Report on the Public Services for the year ended 31 December 2023.
The report deals with
- any matters considered appropriate to report on arising from audits of the appropriation accounts prepared by the Accounting Officers of government departments and offices in relation to the appropriations voted by Dáil Éireann for the previous financial year
any matters considered appropriate to report on arising from examinations of the internal accounting controls operated by government departments and offices (in the current or previous financial year) to ensure the regularity of their financial transactions, the correctness of their payments and receipts, the reliability and completeness of their accounting records and the safeguarding of the assets owned and controlled by them
- the results of examinations of the accounts of the revenues collected by the Revenue Commissioners – these examinations include assessment of whether the accounts are complete and accurate, and whether the Revenue Commissioners have established and applied systems, procedures and practices that are adequate to secure an effective check on the assessment, collection and proper allocation of the revenues.
The report is available below
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
1. Exchequer financial outturn for 2023
2. Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
3. Vote accounting and budget management
4. Adapting flood risk management to climate change impacts
5. Delivery of rapid build housing
6. Cost of policing non-public duty events
7. Protecting the State’s investment in the schools estate
8. Monitoring and managing the performance of school inspections
9. Appraisal of rail project investments
10. Measuring the performance of arts and sports spending
11. Exceptional State funding of the Peter McVerry Trust
12. Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
13. Regularity of social welfare payments
14. The winding down of the Job Initiative scheme
15. Control of the Free Travel scheme
16. Use of Revenue real-time data in social welfare means assessments
17. The Health Service Executive’s integrated financial management system
18. Administration of carbon tax receipts
19. Collection tax on sugar-sweetened drinks
20. Ensuring taxpayer compliance
21. Assessment and collection of plastic bag levy liability
22. Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
23. Performance of the Ireland Apple escrow fund
24. Irish Fiscal Advisory Council
