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This examination was carried out to identify the level of output of waste in publicly-funded hospitals in Ireland, and the type of waste produced, the costs associated with the collection, handling, treatment and disposal of such waste and good practice in the management of waste in publicly-funded hospitals.

Public private partnerships (PPPs) are contractual arrangements under which private sector partners deliver projects and services that traditionally were delivered directly by the public sector. The concept involves the public sector partner specifying clearly the outputs and service levels required. Payment is subject to the agreed outputs and service levels being delivered by the private sector partner. This arrangement aims to give the private sector partner scope to decide how best to deliver what is required, with the potential to make efficiency improvements and reduce costs.

This examination focused on the operations of the Service over the period 1995 to 2002.

This is a report examining the costs of refurbishment of Cork Courthouse, its funding and the provision of interim accommodation.

This is a report on the examination of the Provision of Accommodation for Asylum Seekers and the Management of Sick Leave in Prisons.

This is a report on the examination of the Lease Provision of Accommodation for the Probation and Welfare Service.

The examination considered whether review and control activity is informed by an assessment of the risk of fraud and error attaching to the different types of welfare payment and the effectiveness, in practice, of the Department’s reviews in recovering and deterring overpayments and how it evaluated its performance in that regard.

Although initially intended to be a short-term initiative, the WLI has been funded each year since 1993 at a total cost of €246 million. Over two-thirds of this funding (€172m) was spent in the five-year period focused on by this examination, 1998 to 2002.

This is a report on the review of the contracts in place with the providers of state subsidised transport services to the Islands the determination of correct tendering procedures had been followed in the awarding of contracts in the period 1997 to 2001, the verification that the services contracted for are actually being provided and the establishment that adequate financial management and control procedures are being exercised by the funding organisations.

this is a report determining the extent to which the Department has set objectives for managing and eradicating BSE, a Review and evaluation of the strategies and procedures put in place to manage and operate the programme to control and/or eradicate the disease, and the degree to which the programme has achieved its objectives and an ascertain of the involvement of the Department in research into the origins and transmission of the disease and the threat it poses to human health. Also, FEOGA Guarantee Expenditure under the Ewe Premium Scheme, Interest Payments under Prompt Payments legislation and the Ballaghaderreen Fire Case Settlement.