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This is a report covering HSE Procurement and the results of a review of the extent to which framework agreements and contracting have been implemented since 2007, the changes in inventory management, information systems to support procurement management and the savings being achieved on procurement adjustments by the HSE. It also examines conformance with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform Circular 40/2002.

This is a report examining the overall work of the Partnership Arrangements in the Health Service Forum and outlines, the partnership arrangements that operated at national, area and local level, the results of project evaluations, how funding under the Action Plan for People Management was administered and the arrangements to recover the balance of funding not utilised including funds from other State sources.

This is a report reviewing the extent to which the rural support scheme output and contribution has been evaluated and the results reported and the results of on-site reviews by the Office.

This is a report outlining the deficiencies in the bank reconciliation processes noted on audit and the shortcomings in arrangements to independently confirm balances due to An Post, in the Department of Social Protection.

This is a report examining the extent to which the savings measure used to report review effectiveness in the Department of Social Protection is evidence based, from the viewpoint of recoverability and bankable savings, the return from review activities would be maximised in conditions where the greatest amount of overpayments possible was listed for recovery and actually recovered.

This is a report on the results of a review of the extent to which certain information received was screened and referred to local offices for further investigation and the results of those investigations. The information reviewed in the course of audit related to Jobseekers payments.

This is a report on the results of a review of the effectiveness of controls to prevent and detect invalid claiming in respect of Jobseekers payments, Invalidity Pension and Disability Allowance and the Department’s progress in implementing a risk rating mechanism.

This is a report on the Regularity of Social Welfare Payments. The Department of Social Protection is required to ensure that expenditure it incurs has been applied for the purposes for which the money was made available by Dáil Éireann, and its financial transactions conform with the authorities290, under which they purport to have been carried out. Financial transactions are considered to be ‘regular’ when both of these conditions are satisfied.

This is a report that outlines the trends in the level of overpayments recorded, the extent to which the Department of Social Protection has subsequently recovered those overpayments and the extent to which the Department institutes legal proceedings either to prosecute fraud cases or to recover amounts due from claimants.

This is a report that consolidates and summarises expenditure on welfare and employment schemes met from various public accounts, setting out the source of the funds applied over the past four years, together with 2011 estimates.