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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.

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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.

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This report examines how the Department of Education monitors and measures the impact of school inspections. The report recommends that the Inspectorate reviews the performance measures currently in use to ensure they more accurately reflect its full range of functions.

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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.