The developers of the National Children’s Hospital have submitted claims for additional costs worth some €12m since February.

The board of the National Children's Hospital is giving evidence to PAC alongside the HSE.

The chairperson of the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee (PAC), Fianna Fáil TD Sean Fleming has made a call for the establishment of a National Capital Projects Agency, similar to the National Assets Management Agency (NAMA).

The Catholic Church has handed over little more than half of the compensation money it promised to give victims of repeated physical and sexual abuse, leaving survivors hundreds of millions of euro out of pocket.

A review of how the National Treatment Purchase Fund negotiates prices with private and voluntary nursing homes under the Fair Deal scheme is almost complete.

Women and families affected by the cervical cancer scandal have to borrow money and rely on “the good faith of solicitors” to fight for access to medical records as supports promised by the Government have not yet materialised.

Two bonded warehouse companies have won High Court cases over excise demands for €2m and €1m respectively which arose after they said they were the innocent victims of fraud committed when consignments of alcohol did not arrive at their mainland Europe destinations.

Social workers have warned the child protection system is “in no way ready” for the introduction in six weeks time of mandatory reporting of child abuse concerns.

Social workers have warned the child protection system is “in no way ready” for the introduction in six weeks time of mandatory reporting of child abuse concerns.

THE army deafness claims fiasco was one of those relatively minor but revealing warts-and-all scandals to befall this society. It did huge and lasting damage to the army. It cost €288.7m of which €100.2m went on legal costs. 

Martin Callinan and Nóirín O’Sullivan are now civilians, yet both are represented by the same legal team as the Garda force at the Disclosures Tribunal, comments Special Correspondent Michael Clifford.

GARDA Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan has thus far managed to hold on to her job, despite a litany of failings within the force. 

The European Union's anti-fraud agency, OLAF, will launch an investigation into the use of funds sourced in Europe at the Garda's training college in Templemore, it has been suggested.

The Garda Ombudsman (Gsoc) is set to bring in outside financial investigators and take on more staff to carry out a probe into suspected fraudulent activity involving a secret Garda account.

A member of Garda management told the force’s head of human resources, John Barrett, that there would be an attempt to target Sgt Maurice McCabe at the O’Higgins Commission, according to documents submitted to the Charleton Tribunal.

The abuse of adults must be addressed in the same way as for children to offer help where needed but also respecting individual autonomy, writes Colette Kelleher.

A teacher who set up a company to sell computers and other equipment to the college where he had control of technology purchases is to be made its deputy principal.

Independent TD Mattie McGrath has called on the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee to investigate the spending of more than €22m on a hospital which has not had overnight patients in several years.

ANY political party with realistic ambitions of office must at least give lip-service to the idea of transparency. 

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The biggest buyer of soured real-estate debt in Europe says disposals of non-performing loans from across the continent’s banks and governments will continue until at least 2021.

The artist who painted portraits of the president of Cork Institute of Technology and chair of its governing board has contradicted a whistleblower’s claims that the two men had travelled abroad to sit for the paintings at the college’s expense.

A proposed sports complex for Waterford Institute of Technology could run over budget by €4.3m because of “inadequate leadership”, a lack of due diligence, and decisions that made “no sense”and which led to the project being suspended mid-construction, according to the former head of the company responsible for the project.

The president of Limerick Institute of Technology has accused the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee of portraying the college inaccurately when a recent meeting heard that LIT paid €627,000 to a number of staff members over a four-year period when it had no work for them.

There have been renewed calls for a full inquiry into Nama’s northern property portfolio sale and fresh claims that some €45m was paid out in ‘fixer’ fees in relation to the deal.

A man with whom 500 staff refused to co-operate following his appointment as chief operations manager to a Limerick hospital group has been appointed chief operations manager at the Mater Private Hospital in Cork.

Gardaí are to investigate claims that a Nama official sought and received a €15,000 bribe in a bag from a construction company so it could be allowed leave the agency.

The State’s spending watchdog is to investigate losses linked to Nama’s biggest property portfolio sale amid explosive revelations about fees that were lined up for parties connected to bidders in the deal.

Cork County Council is preparing to take eight legal cases against AIB because the bank has refused to release insurance policies it holds on developers who have not finished off ghost estates.

Money management in the HSE has been described as shocking by the Dáil’s financial watchdog after it emerged that €9m was wasted on penalties for late payments to suppliers.

IT’S Monday so that must mean another HSE scandal. That assertion may be just a tad too sceptical but — unfortunately — yet another blockbuster of mismanagement and waste of public funds in our health service is reported today.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan has insisted that a review of the Siteserv deal can be done at arms length before a full-blown inquiry into the controversial sale is decided on.

Controversial political strategist Frank Flannery is unlikely to be given an official role in Fine Gael’s re-election drive, Taoiseach Enda Kenny has indicated.

The whistleblower behind the explosive Ansbacher dossier informed the Revenue Commissioners of 27 new cases of alleged tax evasion, 10 of which yielded "substantial" settlements.

The Revenue Commissioners say that a number of Ansbacher investigations remain open, but that it is satisfied it has fully investigated claims made about former politicians by a whistleblower.

The State’s spending watchdog has said that the Irish Greyhound Board should have recognised that the development of a new stadium in Limerick that cost €21m might adversely affect its financial position.

Once a key adviser to the Taoiseach and director of the scandal-hit Rehab Group, Frank Flannery speaks out in a wide-ranging interview with Political Reporter Juno McEnroe

An internal Garda investigation into the second batch of alleged penalty points abuses is due to be completed in two weeks.