Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
The Comptroller and Auditor General issued his Report on the Public Services for the year ended 31 December 2022.
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 2022
1. Exchequer financial outturn for 2022
2. Reporting Ireland's EU transactions
3. Central government funding of local authorities
4. Accountability for central funding of local authorities
5. Vote accounting and budget management
6. Financial management shared services: implementation progress
7. Transforming the passport service
8. Performance of certain residential retrofit schemes
9. Assessing cyber security in the public sector
10. Estate management in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
11. Utilisation of the Land Aggregation Scheme sites
12. Stock management in the Defence Forces
13. Regularity of social welfare payments
14. Ex-gratia payments to social welfare branch managers
15. Raising social welfare overpayments
16. Recovery of welfare overpayments
17. Actuarial review of the Social Insurance Fund
18. Health Service Executive funding and financial reporting
19. National Training Fund
20. Assessment and collection of Local Property Tax
21. Revenue's tax debt warehousing scheme
22. Corporation tax losses
23. Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
24. Performance of the Ireland Apple escrow fund
25. Irish Fiscal Advisory Council