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
Public Accounts Committee
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
Farmers to land €100k average payouts as part of Shannon water pipeline deal
Water to be extracted at Parteen Basin in Co Tipperary and piped 170km to the capital
Department opposes naming refugee housing providers that breach contract rules
Dáil’s spending watchdog seeks ‘rationale’ from department officials for not publishing list of contracts
Cost of former CEO employment dispute at Children’s Health Ireland exceeds €160,000
Issued centred on clash between Government policy on term limits for chief executives in State sector and rights under employment law
How former GAA manager Séamus ‘Banty’ McEnaney made over €200m from housing refugees and the homeless
Family firms linked to Seamus ‘Banty’ McEnaney have been paid large sums for emergency accommodation, which critics lay at the door of the State’s ‘repeated short-termism’
The National Concert Hall’s official memos: On revamp costs, one-off payments and HR ‘issues’
Chairperson has sought assurances from Government that NCH will not have to fund multi-million euro redevelopment
OPW spent €17,000 on consultants for committee hearings, more than any other State body
Spending data from 2021 to last month shows OPW spent over €17,000 last year as it faced rolling controversies
Inquiries under way into further allegations around waiting list initiatives at Children’s Health Ireland
Public Accounts Committee and Minister hears that consultant paid €40,000 in 2018 to treat patients on his waiting list at private hospital
Hiqa made 28 referrals to gardaí over nursing homes in 2024, PAC told
Closure notices issued to 10 nursing homes in 2024 and seven have closed so far, committee hears
Dáil committee to scrutinise how Tusla has spent millions on ‘complex litigation’
Dáil Public Accounts Committee expected to question agency over legal cases and protected disclosure
Who is Catherine Connolly? The outspoken left-wing campaigner running for president
A critic of ‘warmongering’ and a Gaeilgeoir, Independent TD was not in the mix during Coalition talks
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