# PAC

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December 2022

# toy show the musical

Dáil public spending watchdog seeks answers from RTÉ over Toy Show: The Musical budget

The Public Accounts Committee is looking to ask questions about the business case for the production.

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Dec 20th 2022, 9:20 AM

Last year

2022

# Public Accounts Committee

Irish greyhound racing industry is closer to a breeding industry, PAC hears

Greyhound Racing Ireland spoke at the Public Accounts Committee today as its financial statements were examined.

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Nov 10th 2022, 1:03 PM

# Public Accounts Committee

Public Accounts Committee to examine financial statements of An Bord Pleanála

The planning body received €19.2 million in Exchequer funding in 2020 and recorded a net deficit of €2.6 million the same year.

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Jul 13th 2022, 4:23 PM

# Delays

Nearly fivefold increase in the number of complaints to the Passport Office this year

Complaints relate to the long delays as well as citizenship issues.

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Jun 30th 2022, 5:38 PM

# PAC

'Outrageous': Over 75s face average wait of 20 hours in some Emergency Departments

PAC Chair Brian Stanley said wait times in emergency departments is an intolerable situation in a well funded health system.

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Updated May 26th 2022, 8:39 PM

# Healthcare system

Public Accounts Committee will not consider leaked details of Department of Health meeting

The Sunday Business Post first reported details of a recorded meeting between Department of Health officials in January.

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Mar 3rd 2022, 10:40 PM

# direct provision

Public Accounts Committee 'not satisfied' with reliance on hotels for direct provision

The PAC has made a number of recommendations on the system.

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Jan 27th 2022, 3:36 PM

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# Controversy

Public Accounts Committee to discuss Katherine Zappone’s appointment as UN envoy

The former children’s minister stepped back from the role amid controversy over the manner of her appointment.

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Aug 13th 2021, 5:04 PM

# Bam

Contractor at National Children’s Hospital submits 906 claims worth €446 million

The National Paediatric Hospital Development Board is spending €15 million fighting the claims.

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Jul 13th 2021, 2:58 PM

# Construction

Contractor BAM takes High Court action against National Children's Hospital board

BAM is the primary contractor building the new children’s hospital in Dublin.

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Apr 8th 2021, 10:19 PM

# Schools

PAC calls for review of temporary school accommodation after €56 million spend in two years

A report has found that the longest arrangement for temporary schools accommodation dates back over 20 years to 2000.

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Feb 12th 2021, 4:11 PM

# PAC

Children's hospital contractor seeking extra claims totalling more than €300 million

Six of the claims are more than €40 million, the committee was told.

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Feb 9th 2021, 2:21 PM

# PAC

Sinn Féin TD says Brian Stanley guilty of 'colossal errors of judgment'

Brian Stanley is taking this week off to spend time with his family at the request of his party leader, Mary Lou McDonald.

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Dec 6th 2020, 4:40 PM

# Make no mistake

NAMA miscalculation caused €10 million loss to taxpayers

The Committee of Public Accounts has found that several errors by NAMA in the sale of its Project Nantes loans potentially lost taxpayers up to €29 million.

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Dec 3rd 2020, 1:38 PM

# PAC chair

Brian Stanley apologises for IRA tweets: We need to talk about the past in a way that doesn't deepen division

The Sinn Féin TD repeated his apology for a tweet he sent over the weekend about two IRA attacks.

Stanley repeated his apology for his tweet about two IRA attacks on the British Army.

The PAC chairman told his colleagues he was sorry for the position he had put them in.

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Dec 2nd 2020, 5:06 PM

# SUSI

Student grants: Barring orders will no longer be accepted as proof that parents are separated

Barring orders were included on a list of acceptable documentation students could use to prove their parents were separated.

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Dec 5th 2019, 6:30 AM

# printer-gate

'A mess from start to finish': PAC says someone must be held responsible for Oireachtas printer controversy

The overall cost of the project is €1.8 million, the committee heard today.

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Nov 28th 2019, 12:08 PM

# printer-gate

Oireachtas printer: Requirements 'neither understood nor examined' at critical stages, report finds

The printer – which is yet to be operational – has caused controversy after it emerged it cost just over €800,000.

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Updated Nov 28th 2019, 9:15 AM

# cost overruns

Some contractor claims for new children's hospital not under board's control, committee to hear

The fact some measures of the project remain uncosted is ‘laughable’ says Labour’s Alan Kelly.

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Nov 27th 2019, 6:20 AM

# Controversy

Old Oireachtas printers not eco-friendly, case for new controversial printer argued

The purchase of the printer is due to be discussed by the Public Accounts Committee later this week.

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Updated Nov 26th 2019, 9:20 PM

# off the presses

This is the model of printing press that's causing all the hassle for the Oireachtas

Structural works were needed at Leinster House to ensure the printer fit correctly in the building.

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Nov 26th 2019, 11:35 AM

# Wages

'Gross mismanagement': NTA paying agency workers twice what it pays its own permanent staff

The average wage an agency worker is paid is nearly €140,000.

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Updated Nov 14th 2019, 8:17 PM

# Cuisle centre

Irish Wheelchair Association to redeploy workers at closed disability resort 'where possible'

Protests have taken place after the closure of the centre was annonuced last week.

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Nov 14th 2019, 12:15 PM

# Controversy

Department boss says he's 'satisfied' the Public Services Card rollout is value for money

The Secretary General of the Department of Social Protection is due before the PAC today.

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Nov 7th 2019, 8:37 AM

# Finances

PAC 'concerned' that OPW building maintenance spending jumped from expected €9m to €39.4m

This follows the publication of the 2018 annual report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) today.

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Sep 30th 2019, 7:34 PM

# Public Services Card

Top civil servant not attending committee is 'an affront to democracy'

Chairperson John McGuinness says committee wants to discuss the cost of the PSC to date.

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Sep 21st 2019, 12:05 AM

# Climate Change

16-year-old tells minister Fine Gael is 'passing the buck' when it comes to climate action

Conal O’Boyle said government is trying to hide the fact that they still grant oil licenses while telling people to buy an electric car.

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Jul 24th 2019, 12:40 PM

# climate action

Ireland is 'buying' its way out of meeting its emission targets by spending €86.8m worth of carbon credits

TD Seán Fleming said it was ‘the biggest act of gross hypocrisy’ at play.

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Jun 13th 2019, 5:01 PM

# Rehab

Ceann Comhairle apologises to Angela Kerins over PAC treatment

In March the Supreme Court ruled the PAC acted unlawfully in its questioning of the former Rehab CEO.

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Jun 9th 2019, 2:45 PM

# former rehab ceo

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar says that Angela Kerins was 'badly treated' by the PAC

“Notwithstanding all the issues around Ms Kerins’ salary, I think she was badly treated,” Varadkar told the Dáil committees’ chairs.

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May 30th 2019, 5:50 PM

# PAC

HSE 'made eejits of' Government by appointing PwC to review National Children's Hospital costs

The firm was found to have ‘high level’ input into a decision to continue with constructing the project last year.

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May 16th 2019, 7:56 PM

# PAC

Commissioner says €22m for 'parading time' is drain on garda overtime budget

The Garda Commissioner is appearing before the Oireachtas Public Accounts committee for the first time today.

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May 9th 2019, 12:36 PM

# my open library

7 more public libraries set to open seven days a week between 8am and 10pm

The ‘My Open Library’ service offers extended opening hours, seven days a week.

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Mar 29th 2019, 6:20 AM

# PAC

Over €100k paid out in compensation to two families of prisoners who died from self-inflicted injuries

That’s according to documents provided to the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee (PAC).

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Mar 29th 2019, 6:00 AM

# Children's Hospital

Sec Gen accused of calling committee 'a mob', Robert Watt says he didn't recall and did not mean to offend

Sinn Féin’s David Cullinane said there is a level of contempt being shown to Oireachtas committees.

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Mar 7th 2019, 10:13 AM

# housing stats

'Cute as foxes': TD asks why the housing department is retweeting tweets with the Fine Gael logo

Meath TD Shane Cassells said there are serious ethical issues with the department retweeting Fine Gael messages.

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Feb 28th 2019, 1:17 PM

# PAC it in

'Chilling effect': What could the Kerins case change about Dáil committees?

A significant judgement was handed down today against the “extraordinarily well-defended” privileges of the Oireachtas.

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Feb 27th 2019, 5:45 PM

# Children's Hospital

Secretary General Robert Watt accused of 'playing games' with Oireachtas committees

Calls have been made by a number of committees for Watt to appear before them to outline DEPR’s role in the children’s hospital project.

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Feb 21st 2019, 12:22 PM

# finance audit

Kildare/Wicklow Education and Training Board boss 'co-operating' with gardaí after Naas office raid

The raid followed on from the publication of the C&AG audit of the financial statements of the organisation.

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Feb 21st 2019, 6:01 AM

# Prison Service

'Mind-boggling': Department can't say whether payments to firm were for surveillance of prison staff

The prison service paid two private security companies over a two-year period.

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Feb 15th 2019, 6:20 AM