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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 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

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 report was based on a review carried out on accounting and governance at the National College of Art and Design.

This chapter examines the control of expenditure on the education sector PPPs at the operational stage. In particular, it considers the adequacy of controls in place in respect of price indexation, service performance and benchmarking.

This examination focused on matters arising out of audits in the education sector.

This examination focused on payments from the Strategic Innovation Fund, the arrangements to monitor attendance in primary and post-primary schools and the causes of an overrun on a capital development project at Cork Institute of Technology.

This examination looked at three areas of responsibility of the Department of Education and Science - the Supervision and Substitution Scheme in Post-Primary Schools, Fulfilment of Employment Contracts in Institutes of Technology and The Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse.