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This report summarises the factors giving rise to the accumulated National Training Fund surplus, and the progress made in the implementation of recommendations to reform the National Training Fund

The report reviews management of stock in the Defence Forces providing an update on the 2014 review of inventory management (Dunning Report). It includes recommendations on the report implementation, coding, the stock policy, operation of stores and the disposal of stock items.

This report presents the findings of an examination on financial governance and reporting in education and training boards. The examination drew on a framework, referred to as the financial management maturity model, developed by the Comptroller and Auditor General for the assessment of public sector bodies of their financial management practices.

Galway City was designated as the European City of Culture 2020. This reports examines the governance and oversight arrangements, the funding and the arrangements to evaluate the effectiveness of expenditure. Exchequer and local authority funding totalled 87%.

This chapter on the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme outlines governance arrangements and presents information on HAP trends, including increases in cost over time. In 2020, the Department spent almost €465 million supporting nearly 60,000 HAP tenants.

This examination focuses on the governance structures adopted between Revenue and the Department of Social Protection, the process in place to verify the eligibility of claims under the Scheme and the subsequent recovery of subsidies in excess of entitlement.

This examination sought to identify if the controls over the assessment and collection of Insurance Compensation fund levies are effective and if the financial reporting in respect of the fund is adequate.

This report reviews the timeliness of public sector financial reporting and focuses mainly on financial statements for periods ending in 2017. The report also summarises the types of issue that were brought to attention in the Comptroller and Auditor General’s audit reports on financial statements for 2017.

This report assesses how the Department implemented the recommendations contained in the C&AG’s special report number 82, Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres and reviews the Department’s governance arrangements for implementing the recommendations.

This report assesses the performance information presented by the Department in relation to its spending on social housing, with the objective of establishing whether it presents a complete and accurate account of what is being achieved for the expenditure incurred.