Five schools and a college being built by a partnership involving the collapsed UK construction firm Carillion should be open by September.

Dublin PR firm Gordon MRM has beaten off competition from two other firms to retain its high profile public relations contract with the Government agency Nama.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has conceded it will take “a couple of weeks” to resolve the fallout from the collapse of the Carillion construction company, and is causing a knock-on impact on six schools in Ireland.

Works should continue as usual on five schools being built for the Department of Education by a consortium led by one of the UK’s biggest building firms which is in liquidation.

A 700-bed student accommodation project on the country’s newest third-level campus depends on EU approval for a funding system, due to question marks over its effect on government debt.

It is almost a year since the Government launched its capital plan covering 2016 to 2021. The plan received a broad if cautious welcome at the time, though the focus of attention soon switched to the budget.

New courthouses are to be built in four locations with major refurbishment in three additional sites under a plan signed off yesterday.

The State has agreed a contract for the development of Ireland’s first healthcare public private partnership (PPP) project. The €140m scheme, part of the Government’s €2.25bn Infrastructure Stimulus Progamme, will provide a network of primary care facilities.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan has confirmed that the PR firm that represents the National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) last year received fees totalling over €3,000 per week.

Ireland is again attracting considerable interest from foreign investors interested in pumping huge sums of money into infrastructural projects here.

The go-ahead for the Poolbeg plant over the objections of councillors shows that in some areas of public life, democracy is simply unworkable in this country, writes Michael Clifford

The controversial €600m Poolbeg incinerator in Dublin has overcome its final hurdle after city bosses secured a value-for-money certificate.

The Department of Education was overcharged by a total of more than €40,000 by two private partner companies for the running of major colleges.

An information session to connect local suppliers to opportunities in the construction sector will take place in Cork today.

Cork City is to get a new multi-million euro courthouse to deal solely with criminal cases.

A Dublin-based PR firm has received over €800,000 (including Vat) in fees in little over three years from the National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA).

Finance Minister Michael Noonan has confirmed that six staff at the National Treasury Management Agency shared bonus payments of €43,000 last year.

Members of the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee have criticised two state agency executives who take fees for sitting on the board of the National Development Finance Agency (NDFA).

The State has had to write off losses worth tens of million of euro as a result of the collapse or postponement of a number of public-private partnerships (PPP).

The National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) is set to spark a major scramble among the country’s top public relations agencies as it puts its prestigious PR contract up for re-tender.

The Chief Executive of the National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) John Corrigan today set out a roadmap for Ireland’s phased re-entry to the international bond markets over the coming 18 months.

Top earners — apart from one — at the National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) have caved into pressure from Finance Minister Michael Noonan and agreed to take a 15% pay cut.

The NTMA’s successful bond swap this week will have done the country’s image no harm at a time when agency boss John Corrigan is helping Ireland claw its way back to a form of international market respectability, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

THE Department of Education will spend €70 million less in 2012 than this year on school and college buildings and maintenance, with the emphasis on growing areas, pushing projects at many schools down the priority list.

THE board tasked with developing the new national children’s hospital has slashed by almost 50% the amount it is hoping to raise in charitable donations towards the estimated €650 million cost of the project.

MORE than 250 staff at the National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA), which includes staff at NAMA, were paid bonuses for last year.

THE board set up to drive the development of the proposed €650 million national children’s hospital does not have the expertise to handle such a crucial and large-scale project, according to its former chair.

Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton has said that top earners at key State agencies who are giving up their bonuses are demonstrating great leadership.

It has emerged some of the top earners at key State agencies are giving up their bonuses.

THE chief executives of three key state agencies — including National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) head John Corrigan — are to give-up bonuses worth as much as €850,000.

EMPLOYERS’ body IBEC has weighed in behind the call for increased infrastructural spend by the incoming Government, but has added that an entirely new approach to funding is ultimately needed.

THE possibility of signing a contract for the Thornton Hall prison complex has officially been put back to the end of the year.

IRISH banks are expected to formally appoint two board members from the panel of 12 names put forward by the Government before Christmas.

LABOUR leader Eamon Gilmore has called for an investigation by the Comptroller and Auditor General into the Government’s controversial hospital co-location project.

PROGRESS is expected within the next six months on three building projects as part of Waterford Institute of Technology’s campus development.

IT is unsurprising that the Government does not know the cost of its hospital co-location plans (July 26).

BRIEFINGS for incoming government ministers, in the wake of the general election, reveal fascinating insights into the reality behind controversial policies and promises by the coalition with the aim of wooing voters at the polls.

The Dáil is expected to approve the Government's proposed stamp-duty reforms later today.

The fallout from the General Election’s TV debate today injected new venom between political rivals in the final days of the campaign.

An international design competition will ensure Ireland’s proposed new National Theatre will rival any in the world, Minister for the Arts John O’Donoghue said today.

The British and Irish governments are facing calls today to establish a high-level task force to co-ordinate the planned investment of €100nm in infrastructure north and south of the border.