St James’s Hospital apologises over unauthorised €4.7m payment for services
Chief executive Mary Day says failure to use public tender process was ‘driven by urgent patient needs’ in cancer and cardiology’
Public Accounts Committee
St James’s Hospital paid €1.4m to firm run by staff ‘to meet urgent patient need’
Management to apologise for securing radiology services in 2024 without following official procurement rules
Former Inland Fisheries Ireland chief begins case at Workplace Relations Commission
Fisheries agency has had troubled history in recent years with a number of reviews and investigations
Some retired public service staff live in State-owned homes with weekly rents as low as €12
OPW says some former workers remain on properties under caretaking arrangements or on compassionate grounds
‘Pity’ Deer Park works cost €753,000 but new entrance is ‘a good project’, PAC told
Building of ramp and 14 steps in Dublin park cost over €500,000 more than initially proposed
More than 40 investigations carried out into money going missing from Garda stations
Public Accounts Committee says it was told that €40m being stored as evidence in Garda stations across country
Nearly 100 non-urgent patients found to have cancer by service queried by spending watchdog
Hospital says it does not have enough core staff as it responds to controversy over €1.44m in spending to company owned by staff
Fourteen cases taken against State over age verification of international protection applicants
Tusla confirms it ‘does not conduct age assessment in the strict statutory sense’ on people presenting as unaccompanied minors
No firm timeline for sale of drug-smuggling ship costing €110,000 per week to detain
Revenue to tell Dáil committee that almost €13m has been spent berthing and maintaining MV Matthew after record cocaine haul
Fisheries agency allowed employee to present false documents to gardaí
Inland Fisheries Ireland refutes finding set out in external investigator’s report commissioned by Eamon Ryan
Rent for former commissioner’s Phoenix Park home paid by Garda during his term of office
Force paid €1,750 a month for Drew Harris’s use of property between 2018 and 2025 to Office of Public Works
Children’s science museum project described as ‘absolute shambles’
The Office of Public Works - which is under a legal obligation to deliver a building for the project - appeared before the Dáil’s spending watchdog
About €400,000 spent on mothballed accommodation centre for asylum seekers in Wicklow
Residents had to be moved from Newtownmountkennedy site to alternative accommodation last year due to severe weather
Report on botched Arts Council IT project ‘pretty damning’ for Department
PAC chair criticises ‘failures’ at Department of Culture as findings recommends stronger oversight
‘Rigorous’ pre-purchase checks needed in wake of spending debacles in arts and culture, says watchdog
Report by Dáil watchdog comes after botched IT project at Arts Council and separate issue with X-ray scanner at National Gallery
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Peter McVerry Trust spent money on peacock enclosure at period property it had purchased
Homeless charity’s former chief approved spending at Kerdiffstown House in Co Kildare, including €300,000 for driveway work
Former Peter McVerry Trust board accused of putting ‘self-interest’ ahead of charity
TDs to hear damning statement from long-time McVerry official
Digital Hub Development Agency facing residential land tax bill of €575,000
Charge on properties at agency’s campus in Dublin’s Liberties is in addition to €1.6m vacant site levy for warehouse
Review into €2m overrun on Beaumont Hospital IT project will cost €115,000
Beaumont chief says overspend was due to underestimation of complexities, staff turnover and industrial relations issues
Dublin hospital paid €1.44m for services to company owned by staff
St James’s Hospital paid radiologists for additional imaging services due to ongoing surge in demand
Uisce Éireann employee receives €32,500 performance-related award on top of salary
Water utility tells Dail Public Accounts Committee it would lose staff if current pay model not retained
Dublin drainage project will not be operational before 2032 ‘at best’, says Uisce Éireann
Further delays to key projects will have ‘serious consequences’ for housing and economic growth
Who runs the country’s hospital system?
Governance of Ireland’s public hospital structure is complex and now Ministers are involved in a long-running dispute
OPW spent €180,000 on advice on potential impact of MetroLink
State body says it had sought specialist planning and engineering advice on effects metro system may have on its properties
About 500 people subject to deportation orders living in international protection facilities
Committee members raise concerns about processes for assessing age of unaccompanied asylum seekers
Almost €1bn paid to private operators to accommodate asylum seekers last year
Fewer than half the gardaí working in Gaeltacht areas have working proficiency in Irish, PAC hears
HSE could face ‘an overall loss’ of between €5m-€7m from dealing with one supplier
Public Accounts Committee to be told there is no hope of recovering losses
Beaumont Hospital integrated payroll and HR system will cost about €3m more than projected
Dáil Public Accounts Committee hears that IT project was never put out to tender
A year after the €330,000 Dáil bike shed, is there still a ‘money doesn’t matter’ culture?
Office of Public Works insists new structures are now in place to protect against overspending but critics are not so sure
Ship seized in largest cocaine haul now costing the State €110,000 per week
Moored in the port of Cork, MV Matthew is considered an environmental, ecological and economic risk
Former Rehab chief Angela Kerins submits legal bills of €2.1m to Oireachtas
Clerk of Dáil tells Public Accounts Committee controversy over €300,000 bike shed caused reputational damage
New financial safeguards planned for national maternity hospital project
Government seeks to implement lessons learned from national children’s hospital construction
‘We have gone back to basics’: McVerry Trust seeks reset after finance issues and bailout
Organisation unveils newly refurbished housing complex on Townsend Street in Dublin
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