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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.

This chapter looks at the progress made by the Department of Health and the HSE in the development of primary care centres (PCCs) since 2010. As at March 2019 there were 127 PCCs in operation - around 36% of the targeted network. The chapter reviews the prioritisation of locations for development, and the delivery methods used.

This chapter reviews the operation of the R&D credit, including the scale of non-compliance with the scheme conditions and how Revenue systems and procedures can be improved in order to detect and deter non-compliance in this area.

This chapter reviews the expenditure on the Thornton project and examines the accounting for the value of capital works in the appropriation account of the Prison Service.

This chapter examines the management of Private Patient income in the Health Sector.

This examination was based on Bord na gCon's development of Limerick greyhound racing stadium.

This chapter examines the expenditure charged to Vote 24 Justice and Equality relating to the development of a new building for the State Pathology Service and the Dubline Coroner's Office, however, despite a significant financial outlay, no new premises was delivered.

This chapter examines the costs associated by the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government associated with the remediation of land as directed by the European Court of Justice.

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 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.