Search

The Comptroller and Auditor General has published his Report to Dáil Éireann on the results of his examination of the 2003 Accounts of Government Departments and Offices. The Report identifies issues, which in his opinion, merit consideration by the Committee of Public Accounts in the interests of transparency and accountability.

PDF Document
This is a report on the examination of the Estimated Costs facing the Residential Institutions Redress Board; the outturn of the Centres for Young Offenders in terms of occupancy levels, staffing and capital and running costs, including how the Department discharged its overall responsibility for the Centres and the Qualified Audit Certification of Appropriation Account.

Public private partnerships (PPPs) are contractual arrangements under which private sector partners deliver projects and services that traditionally were delivered directly by the public sector. The concept involves the public sector partner specifying clearly the outputs and service levels required. Payment is subject to the agreed outputs and service levels being delivered by the private sector partner. This arrangement aims to give the private sector partner scope to decide how best to deliver what is required, with the potential to make efficiency improvements and reduce costs.

This examination focused on the operations of the Service over the period 1995 to 2002.

The Comptroller and Auditor General has published his Report to Dáil Éireann on the results of his examination of the 2002 Accounts of Government Departments and Offices. The Report identifies issues, which in his opinion, merit consideration by the Committee of Public Accounts in the interests of transparency and accountability.

PDF Document
This is a report concerning the Residential Institutions Redress Scheme and the examination of the estimate the State’s contingent liability arising from the establishment of the redress scheme, a review the negotiation of the Agreement with particular reference to the information, advice and arrangements for approval of the acts of negotiation and a review the implementation of the Agreement concluded as a result of those negotiations. An examination of the Allocation and Prioritisation of Expenditure for School Buildings, the Cork School of Music Public Private Partnership Project and the performance and mandate of the National Educational Psychological Service.

The Comptroller and Auditor General has published his Report to Dáil Éireann on the results of his examination of the 2001 Accounts of Government Departments and Offices. The Report identifies issues, which in his opinion, merit consideration by the Committee of Public Accounts in the interests of transparency and accountability.

PDF Document
This is a report establishing the extent to which the Department has implemented the Joint Review Group’s recommendations and the effects of their implementation on overtime and staffing levels and on general operation of the Examination Branch.

The Comptroller and Auditor General has published his Report to Dáil Éireann on the results of his examination of the 2000 Accounts of Government Departments and Offices. The Report identifies issues, which in his opinion, merit consideration by the Committee of Public Accounts in the interests of transparency and accountability.

PDF Document
This is a report on the difficulties experienced in agreeing income reported in the Vocational Education Committees accounts with corresponding grant expenditure recorded in the Department of Education and Science.