# pac - Friday 12 February, 2021
# Schools
# Schools
A report has found that the longest arrangement for temporary schools accommodation dates back over 20 years to 2000.
# pac - Tuesday 9 February, 2021
# PAC
# PAC
Six of the claims are more than €40 million, the committee was told.
# pac - Sunday 6 December, 2020
# PAC
# PAC
Brian Stanley is taking this week off to spend time with his family at the request of his party leader, Mary Lou McDonald.
# pac - Thursday 3 December, 2020
# Make No Mistake
# Make No Mistake
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.
# pac - Wednesday 2 December, 2020
# PAC Chair
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.
# pac - Thursday 5 December, 2019
# SUSI
# SUSI
Barring orders were included on a list of acceptable documentation students could use to prove their parents were separated.
# pac - Thursday 28 November, 2019
# Printer-gate
# Printer-gate
The overall cost of the project is €1.8 million, the committee heard today.
# Printer-gate
# Printer-gate
The printer – which is yet to be operational – has caused controversy after it emerged it cost just over €800,000.
# pac - Wednesday 27 November, 2019
# Cost Overruns
# Cost Overruns
The fact some measures of the project remain uncosted is ‘laughable’ says Labour’s Alan Kelly.
# pac - Tuesday 26 November, 2019
# Controversy
# Controversy
The purchase of the printer is due to be discussed by the Public Accounts Committee later this week.
# Off The Presses
# Off The Presses
Structural works were needed at Leinster House to ensure the printer fit correctly in the building.
# pac - Thursday 14 November, 2019
# Wages
# Wages
The average wage an agency worker is paid is nearly €140,000.
# Cuisle Centre
# Cuisle Centre
Protests have taken place after the closure of the centre was annonuced last week.
# pac - Thursday 7 November, 2019
# Controversy
# Controversy
The Secretary General of the Department of Social Protection is due before the PAC today.
# pac - Monday 30 September, 2019
# Finances
# Finances
This follows the publication of the 2018 annual report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) today.
# pac - Saturday 21 September, 2019
# Public Services Card
# Public Services Card
Chairperson John McGuinness says committee wants to discuss the cost of the PSC to date.
# pac - Wednesday 24 July, 2019
# Climate Change
# Climate Change
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.
# pac - Thursday 13 June, 2019
# Climate Action
# Climate Action
TD Seán Fleming said it was ‘the biggest act of gross hypocrisy’ at play.
# pac - Sunday 9 June, 2019
# Rehab
# Rehab
In March the Supreme Court ruled the PAC acted unlawfully in its questioning of the former Rehab CEO.
# pac - Thursday 30 May, 2019
# Former Rehab Ceo
# Former Rehab Ceo
“Notwithstanding all the issues around Ms Kerins’ salary, I think she was badly treated,” Varadkar told the Dáil committees’ chairs.
# pac - Thursday 16 May, 2019
# PAC
# PAC
The firm was found to have ‘high level’ input into a decision to continue with constructing the project last year.
# pac - Thursday 9 May, 2019
# PAC
# PAC
The Garda Commissioner is appearing before the Oireachtas Public Accounts committee for the first time today.
# pac - Friday 29 March, 2019
# My Open Library
# My Open Library
The ‘My Open Library’ service offers extended opening hours, seven days a week.
# PAC
# PAC
That’s according to documents provided to the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee (PAC ).
# pac - Thursday 7 March, 2019
# Children's Hospital
# Children's Hospital
Sinn Féin’s David Cullinane said there is a level of contempt being shown to Oireachtas committees.
# pac - Thursday 28 February, 2019
# Housing Stats
# Housing Stats
Meath TD Shane Cassells said there are serious ethical issues with the department retweeting Fine Gael messages.
# pac - Wednesday 27 February, 2019
# PAC It In
# PAC It In
A significant judgement was handed down today against the “extraordinarily well-defended” privileges of the Oireachtas.
# pac - Thursday 21 February, 2019
# Children's Hospital
# Children's Hospital
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.
# Finance Audit
# Finance Audit
The raid followed on from the publication of the C&AG audit of the financial statements of the organisation.
# pac - Friday 15 February, 2019
# Prison Service
# Prison Service
The prison service paid two private security companies over a two-year period.
# pac - Thursday 14 February, 2019
# Naas
# Naas
The Comptroller and Auditor General published an audit into the board’s financial statements yesterday.
# pac - Wednesday 13 February, 2019
# Health Crises
# Health Crises
The new children’s hospital is currently estimated to cost €1.7 billion.
# pac - Friday 25 January, 2019
# Personal Injury
# Personal Injury
The School Transport Scheme transports children who reside in remote areas of the country to and from their nearest school.
# pac - Thursday 6 December, 2018
# Death And Taxes
# Death And Taxes
From 2016 to May 2018, Revenue received a total of 9,721 ‘good citizen reports’ about suspected tax evasion.
# pac - Wednesday 5 December, 2018
# Buying Vs Rent
# Buying Vs Rent
Committee concerned about State renting buildings long-term rather than buying.
# Follow The Money
# Follow The Money
The committee got into hot water before the presidential election when it decided to review the spending of the Office of the President of Ireland.
# pac - Friday 30 November, 2018
# Unemployment
# Unemployment
How much the companies got paid per person has been shrouded in secrecy since the roll out of the programme.
# pac - Wednesday 14 November, 2018
# Whistleblowers
# Whistleblowers
Our politicians and government, as well as the media, should be prepared to be far more self-critical and embrace change, writes John Devitt.
# pac - Thursday 8 November, 2018
# High Court
# High Court
“I note that the interview panel described the respondent as ‘eager to work and learn’. But learn at whose expense?” the judge said.
# pac - Saturday 29 September, 2018
# High Worth Individuals
# High Worth Individuals
The Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee said people would be “shocked” by the report.
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