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This report examines the systems and procedures employed by Teagasc to evaluate its own effectiveness. Teagasc was formed to provide services for the agriculture and food sectors in three distinct services areas – research, advisory services and training. Teagasc 2000 is a comprehensive plan for the future delivery of services which was published in the middle of 1998. Management systems including those associated with the determination of effectiveness are being developed in light of proposals in Teagasc 2000.

This is a report on the procurement of a new accounts system, the FEOGA Grant Operations, collection of Grant Overpayments and Grant Disallowances by the EU Commission.

The Department of Agriculture and Food (the Department) administers a range of annual grant schemes for farmers producing livestock (mainly cattle and sheep) and certain tillage crops. Most of the funding for the schemes is provided by the European Union (EU) which specifies the rates of payment and rules about eligibility and how the schemes are to be administered. By the end of June 1998, a total of £786 million had been paid out in respect of 543,000 applications made under the 1997 schemes. Grant payments now amount to almost half of the aggregate income from farming.

This is a report on the FEOGA grants scheme, covering controls over Area Aid, Disallowances by the EU Commission, and Irregularities found.

This is a report on Disallowances by EU Commission of FEOGA grant ,the administration of Premia/Headage and Arable Aid Schemes, Controls over Cattle Identification, Land Parcel Identification System and Overlapping of Land on the system, Computerised and Manual Payments, Duplicate Payments, Collection of Land Annuities and the Collection of Bog Rents.

The specific objectives of this value for money review were to examine the efficiency of the administration of the LEADER programme and to examine how the effectiveness of the LEADER programme is evaluated.