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This report examines whether the Department of Education and Youth has implemented an adequate system of control to manage and safeguard per capita grant payments to schools, and allow it to prevent and detect errors or irregularities in a timely manner.

This report presents the findings of an examination of the purchase of certain properties acquired by the University of Limerick. It examined the purchase of a property at Honan’s Quay and the subsequent property acquisition at Rhebogue.

This report examines how the Department of Education monitors and measures the impact of school inspections. The report recommends that the Inspectorate reviews the performance measures currently in use to ensure they more accurately reflect its full range of functions.

This report examines if there are adequate legal protections to protect the States investment in the schools estate and the management and monitoring of these agreements, and examine the accounting treatment of the capital funding provided for school construction and extensions

This report summarises the factors giving rise to the accumulated National Training Fund surplus, and the progress made in the implementation of recommendations to reform the National Training Fund

This report examines three site purchases in the Dublin area to establish whether a well-defined business case was in place and how the Department of Education and Skills ensured value for money was achieved in relation to the purchase price. The three sites were bought for a combined total of just over €67 million and accounted for just over half of the Department’s expenditure on sites between 2014 and 2018. The Department is seeking to maximise the potential value of the sites by locating both a primary and a post-primary school on each of the two sites and is examining its policies in relation to site utilisation generally.

The Comptroller and Auditor General has carried out an examination of the cost of the child abuse inquiry and redress. The work of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse and of the Redress Board is largely complete. Costs to the end of 2015 of the child abuse inquiry and redress are an estimated €1.5 billion. Both the cost to the State and the time required to bring the process to a conclusion have hugely exceeded original estimates.

The Comptroller and Auditor General has carried out a review of certain matters pertaining to internal control in County Cork Vocational Educational Committee.

This report focused on an examination of the restructuring of the administration of student grants.

This chapter outlines the settlement of tax liabilities made by the Vote for Education and Skills in order to settle tax liabilities incurred by the State Examinations Commission and the Department of Education and Skills.