Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2024
The Comptroller and Auditor General issued his Report on the Public Services for the year ended 31 December 2024.
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 2024
1. Exchequer financial outturn for 2024
2. Central government funding of local authorities
3. Central government accounting standards
4. Vote accounting and budget management
5. Development of a proposed national science centre
6. The OPW's management of office accommodation
7. Errors in public service pay and pensions administration
8. Accommodation cost for policing the UEFA Europa League final
9. The Criminal Justice Operational Hub
10. Management of international protection accommodation contracts
11. Control of grant payments to schools
12. Progress towards achieving climate neutrality in Ireland
13. Clearing of the Carbon fund
14. Bovine TB eradication programme
15. Housing schemes — funding and delivery
16. Regularity of social welfare payments
17. Classification of workers for PRSI purposes
18. Management of redundancy and insolvency payment scheme debts
19. Development of primary care centres
20. Grant funding of remote working hubs
21. Collection of motor vehicles taxes
22. Taxation of rental income
23. Receipts from the capping of electricity sales revenue
24. The collection and allocation of PRSI receipts
25. Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
26. Winding up of the Ireland Apple escrow fund
27. Irish Fiscal Advisory Council
