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# COmptroller and Auditor General

Last year
2023
Ireland's Apple escrow fund lost €259 million in value last year
29 Sep 2023
21.8k
27
PAC chair Brian Stanley says C&AG report shows ‘taxpayer is failing to achieve value for money’
29 Sep 2023
16.7k
59
All time
Exchequer spent estimated €17.1 billion as a result of Covid-19 in pandemic's first year
30 Sep 2021
9.3k
20
Nursing home accommodation costs 62% more in public residences than in private alternatives
10 Aug 2020
21.9k
27
New Department of Health headquarters were empty for over a year - costing almost €16m
29 Sep 2018
25.9k
61
Ship seized over tobacco smuggling has cost State €410,000 because Revenue can't dispose of it
29 Sep 2018
36.1k
64
Public servants in shared system overpaid an estimated €3.7 million last year
26 Mar 2018
27.0k
26
Nine companies were paid more than €10m each for providing direct provision centres
1 Oct 2016
14.9k
38
Up to €50,000 was spent on maintaining Garda station recording equipment every year
3 Apr 2014
4.2k
15
6 reasons why Martin Callinan resigned as Garda Commissioner
25 Mar 2014
30.8k
64
Callinan: Not in public interest to stop garda whistleblower appearing before PAC
29 Jan 2014
7.8k
46
'The facts as I know them': 11 things we learned from Martin Callinan's evidence to the PAC
23 Jan 2014
17.7k
133
'Did it come from the taxpayer?': PAC chief slams Hogan's officials over Irish Water funding
16 Jan 2014
9.1k
62
A new Vice President, and other things that happen if the Seanad is scrapped
6 May 2013
9.4k
33
Watchdog's report into training fund finds problems with nearly €1m in spending
29 Apr 2013
6.0k
22
DDDA fiasco shows 'murky relationship between FF, developers and Anglo' - TD
4 Jun 2012
5.0k
37
FitzPatrick, Bradshaw and ministers could be forced to address TDs on Docklands debacle
1 Jun 2012
2.8k
5
C&AG report questions decisions made by DDDA in bid for Glass Bottle site
31 May 2012
2.5k
3
'Considerable challenge' for Nama to break even - official report
24 May 2012
2.5k
16
Government to block Bill allowing TDs to scrutinise council spending
11 May 2012
1.7k
21
In numbers: the Annual Report of the Comptroller & Auditor General
19 Sep 2011
1.0k
8