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This is a report that provides an overview of the funds flowing from and through central Government sources to local authorities, and of the purposes for which the funds have been provided, it also examines recent developments aimed at reducing local authority indebtedness for past acquisitions of land for social and affordable housing.

This is a report covering the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service (INIS) and awarding a contract to an international consortium, led by Accenture, to design and implement a new automated fingerprint identification system (AFIS) for use in both organisations.

This is a report on the Data Management System project of the Central Statistics Office as per their Information Technology Strategic Implementation Plan (ITSIP) formulated in March 2002.

This is a report on the creation of a National Procurement Service and subsequent goals of the body.

This examination involved a review of internal control, governance and related matters in FÁS over the period 2002 to 2008.

This report shows the result of audit enquiries into whether an ICT strategy had been developed and was subject to regular review and update, the extent to which ICT governance arrangements and project management processes specified by the Department of Finance were in place in the HSE and the progress made in the implementation of major systems.

This report examines property management associated with the decentralisation programme. The programme was substantially curtailed from October 2008. The audit sought to review the implications for OPW’s property management in the now prevailing market conditions and taking account of the conditions prevailing at the time property transactions were effected, to review the value achieved in the acquisition of property for the programme. In doing so the audit relied on both internal OPW benchmarking and an independent review by property consultants engaged by my Office.

This report on the National Convention Centre sets out to review, the quality of the initial business case, how costs and benefits were estimated, whether the procurement was conducted in accordance with government guidelines and the bid selected provided the best value and whether negotiations prior to the award of the contract protected the State’s position.

This is a report, which focuses on Initiatives being developed by the National Procurement Service (NPS) to provide better value in the procurement of goods and services. And Expenditure declared to have been undertaken in 2009 on foot of contracts entered into without recourse to competitive procurement processes. It also presents an analysis of the declared reasons why a competitive process was not followed in those cases.

This examination looked at advertising and promotional expenditure by FÁS in the period 2002-2008. It examined the budgetary control over advertising and promotional expenditure, the general strategy under which it was spent and the extent to which its effectiveness was evaluated.