A major flaw in the laws prohibiting the resale of properties taken over by NAMA to the developers behind them has emerged.

The State will have to pay the bulk of a €5m compensation payout following claims from 100 prison officers and prisoners infected by tuberculosis in a major outbreak at a prison.

The HSE has been accused of making “eejits” out of members of the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC), after it sought to convince them that there was no conflict of interest in the role of consultancy firm, PwC, carrying out a review into the huge cost overruns at the National Children’s Hospital.

The Government’s public representative on the children’s hospital board is set to attend a meeting with TDs today, a month after he didn’t appear at an earlier meeting.

Bodies of inquiry have to date proven to be a costly and ineffective remedy to our nation’s ills, writes Political Editor Daniel McConnell.

Health officials have been accused of failing to provide TDs with a detailed report on the cost of building the National Children’s Hospital before a meeting last week, amid ongoing claims they are delaying access to key information.

Dozens of cases over EU working time laws could cost State millions

More than 3,200 persons in receipt of welfare benefits have been overpaid by a minimum of €30,000 and still owe €179m back to the State, it emerged yesterday.

The chair of the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has rejected criticism of its planned meeting today about spending by the office of the President.

The Government’s new housing agency will not become another Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA), ministers have insisted.

A mystery RTÉ presenter has joined stars Ryan Tubridy, Joe Duffy, and Ray D’Arcy in earning more than €300,000 a year from the station in the first salary figures revealed by the State broadcaster in three years.

A Government department has been accused of “the most appalling waste of public funds” after it was criticised for ploughing more than €8m into an arts cinema paying rent of just €1 a year for the next 25 years.

Banks and other large corporations have a staggering €218bn in losses to recoup before they have to pay any corporation tax, it has been revealed.

Ireland is losing out on billions of euro every year because eight of the 100 most lucrative Irish-based multinationals pay no corporation tax and five more have a tax bill of less than 1%.

Cork Institute of Technology is being asked for a full explanation of how its ex-president Brendan Murphy personally signed off on more than half the €13,000 costs of two functions to mark his own retirement.

More than 40% of the nearly 500 social workers who have quit work with Tusla, the child and family agency, since the start of 2014 gave no specific reason for their decision to leave.

At least 15 HSE-funded charities are continuing to flout strict pay level rules imposed for 320 individuals after the Central Remedial Clinic and Rehab financial scandals.

The chairman of Hiqa has confirmed he was asked by a nursing home operator to stop an inspection report from appearing on the health watchdog’s website.

The Health Service Executive (HSE) has confirmed it spent just over €626,000 on securing the St Kevin’s property in Cork City over the past decade.

A Garda manager threatened the internal auditor who uncovered the Garda college financial scandal with legal action if he did not remove key findings from his report into the case.

The Higher Education Authority is to appoint an international expert to validate an internal review of processes within Waterford Institute of Technology, following a request by the president of the college.

Consultants working on one of the two Grace foster abuse scandal reports wanted €2,200 a day to do their work, the Irish Examiner can reveal.

The HSE knew gardaí had no issue with a damning report into the Grace sex abuse scandal being published as far back as 2011 but only published it this year, it has emerged.

The three people who were “directly responsible” for leaving ‘Grace’ in a foster home in 1996 have retired and are in receipt of full HSE pensions despite their failure to protect her, it has emerged.

The Government wants to establish a South African-style truth commission to publicly record the wide-scale abuse in mother and baby homes.

The HSE owes thousands of hospital patients and nursing home residents, who were wrongly charged a combined €450m for free public services, tens of millions of euro, officials have admitted.

Religious orders have contributed just 13% of the amount it has cost to operate the child abuse inquiry and redress scheme and to support survivors of residential abuse, according to a report by the Comptroller and Auditor General.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan has been accused of attempting to “influence or muzzle” a Public Accounts Committee investigation into the Project Eagle controversy after demanding negative findings against him are removed.

Former Northern Ireland first minister and DUP leader Peter Robinson and two witnesses vital to an investigation into the controversial Project Eagle deal have formally refused to face public questioning.

Nama has been accused by US investment firm Pimco of “repeatedly mischaracterising” its role in the controversial sale of its Northern Ireland loan book.

A senior civil servant received a €1.119m severance package from an unknown Government department during the worst years of the recession, writes Irish Examiner Political Reporter, Fiachra Ó Cionnaith.

The gardaí and revenue commissioners need to fully investigate the ongoing scandal at suicide prevention charity Console, Health Minister Simon Harris has said.

Beaumont Hospital owes around €200,000 in interest and compensation to suppliers over its failure to pay them on time.

Independent TD Mick Wallace is correct in saying that the problems related to Nama have not gone away.

Commercial property values across a large chunk of the Project Eagle loans in Belfast have soared up to 20% since Nama signed off on the controversial transaction for €1.6bn just over a year ago, the Irish Examiner has confirmed.

Commercial property prices across a large chunk of the Project Eagle loans in Belfast have soared by up to 20% since Nama signed off on the transaction for €1.6bn just over 12 months ago, the Irish Examiner has confirmed.

A police probe into allegations that the €1.5bn sale of Nama’s Northern property portfolio was connected to a major political pay-off has intensified calls for a top level investigation into the Government agency’s deal south of the border.

Brown Rudnick, the US law firm which advised two bidders involved in the controversial €5.7bn of Project Eagle loans sold by Nama last year, yesterday said it would co-operate with all inquiries into the transaction.

Nama was toughing it out last night amid calls from Stormont and in the Dáil that it review the process behind the controversial sale last year of €5.7bn of loans to a giant US fund.