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Former Children’s Health Ireland boss kept salary of almost €184k in new role
Some €250,000 in potential income for CHI was lost due to late insurance claims, Public Accounts Committee hears separately
Munster Technological University cyberattack response cost €3.5m, PAC told
State facing ‘significant’ potential loss as training board funds in non-interest bearing account, Comptroller and Auditor General says
Public Accounts Committee to examine ‘profiteering’ on asylum seeker accommodation, new chairman says
Sinn Féin’s John Brady said people have ‘become millionaires providing sometimes poor quality accommodation’
New PAC chair says looking into Arts Council’s €6.7m abandoned IT system is priority
Sinn Féin’s John Brady says Public Accounts Committee will examine many of the recent controversies surrounding spending by State bodies
New Public Accounts Committee chairman to be Sinn Féin TD John Brady
High-profile PAC oversees public spending in State bodies and convenes hearings into expenditure controversies
Oireachtas committee chair appointments under way ahead of Dáil return next week
Dispute over speaking time for Independent TDs had held up decisions to hand out key roles with €10,880 salary top-up
Ryan Tubridy and agent Noel Kelly seek RTÉ files on 2023 crisis at a cost of €100,000 to broadcaster
Data access requests have already cost the broadcaster more than €100,000 as it worries about potential for fresh controversy
Q&A: What do Oireachtas committees do and when will they finally be set up?
Sinn Féin has claimed the current timetable means committees will not be set up until May
Michael Noonan and civil servants have last laugh after PAC criticism
Commission of Investigation into Project Eagle deal with Cerberus backed Nama conduct and valuation of Northern Ireland developers' loans
Who’s who in the controversy over Arts Council spending?
Extent of losses from failed IT project only disclosed last summer, statement from Catherine Martin suggests
Angela Kerins says she was ‘nearly destroyed’ by Dáil committee experience
Former Rehab CEO has written to the Taoiseach seeking ‘justice’ after court cases
Project to pipe water from river Shannon to Dublin could cost €10bn
Uisce Éireann using estimate range of €4.5bn-€6bn for 170km pipeline preliminary business case
Verona Murphy’s path to Ceann Comhairle role marked by controversy
Outspoken Independent TD was deselected by Fine Gael as a candidate for 2020 general election following comments about asylum seekers
PAC members ‘furious’ after bid to quiz children’s hospital organisations before election is unsuccessful
Social Democrats TD Catherine Murphy says refusal of bodies to appear before committee was ‘unacceptable’
PAC wants children’s hospital organisations to appear at final meeting before election
Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board say they can attend at a future date but not this week
OPW to defend ballooning cost of modular homes for people fleeing Ukraine
Public Accounts Committee will also quiz OPW on progress of flood relief schemes
Crisis upon crisis: What next for Mary Lou McDonald and Sinn Féin as an election looms?
The party faces strategic problems over where it positions itself and who its core voters are. And as it’s trying to figure all this out, it gets hit with one controversy after another
‘Awful ambiguity’: Sinn Féin’s woes and Brian Stanley’s independent ambition make Laois even tighter
The fallout from the TD’s surprising resignation from Sinn Féin has created confusion in a recently redrawn constituency and left many local voters eager for clarity
Brian Stanley controversy: Government ‘bottled’ fight to block new PAC chair nomination, SF says
Mairéad Farrell was sent forward to Dáil by committee with unanimous approval after Mr Stanley’s resignation from party
Sinn Féin nominates Galway West TD Mairéad Farrell as new PAC chair
Party names replacement for former TD Brian Stanley on influential committee
Sinn Féin row with Brian Stanley deepens over referral of claims to Garda
Uncertainty in Garda about nature of complaint filed, with one source saying it was not filed in Dublin or with Garda HQ
Brian Stanley: Everything we know so far about the controversy surrounding the former Sinn Féin TD
Laois-Offaly deputy resigned from party last weekend, adding to the problems facing it on both sides of Border
No co-operation with new SF PAC chair until McDonald addresses party’s controversies, say TDs
Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael members of committee say there are outstanding questions relating to resignation of Brian Stanley
Brian Stanley quits Sinn Féin after ‘gross misconduct’ allegation; party refers matter to gardaí
Preliminary conclusion of gross misconduct decided before Public Accounts Committee chairman Stanley resigned from party
Sinn Féin woes pile up with latest revelations
Resignation of PAC chair Brian Stanley amid internal inquiry and ‘counter allegation’ adds to multifaceted crisis facing party leader Mary Lou McDonald
Road Safety Authority has spent €2.5m on PR since 2020
Details of RSA public relations spend provided after ‘tricky’ TDs advice prompted Freedom of Information request
PAC chairman hits out at ‘sky-high prices’ of affordable homes in south Dublin
Land Development Agency tells TDs there’s ‘huge interest’ in Shankill properties despite high prices
Expenditure on housing aid schemes poor value for taxpayer, Oireachtas committee notes
Housing assistance payment and Rental Accommodation Scheme fail to provide the State with long-term assets, report states
Tenants in cost-rental homes paying €1,000 less per month than open market, PAC to be told
TDs to hear Land Development Agency has pipeline of 37 sites to deliver about 17,000 homes
Children’s science museum cost fears rise as detail of €560,000 legal bill emerges
TD says proposed €70m project for Dublin could turn into a ‘mini national children’s hospital’
Former UL president being paid €175,000 while on year-long sabbatical, PAC hears
Public Accounts Committee hearing: Kerstin May resigned as UL chief last June and is on leave in new post as professor of visual culture
‘I wasn’t responsible’: Former OPW minister says he learned of Oireachtas bike shed cost in media
Patrick O’Donovan agrees with view of Pashcal Donohoe, who said he was ‘embarrassed’ at price paid for structure
Doubling of build cost for Ukrainians’ modular homes ‘unacceptable’, says PAC chairman
State agreements being entered into with contractors are not fit for purpose, according to Sinn Féin TD Brian Stanley
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