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This report examines if there are adequate legal protections to protect the States investment in the schools estate and the management and monitoring of these agreements, and examine the accounting treatment of the capital funding provided for school construction and extensions

This chapter outlines the settlement of tax liabilities made by the Vote for Education and Skills in order to settle tax liabilities incurred by the State Examinations Commission and the Department of Education and Skills.

This examination focused on matters arising out of audits in the education sector.

This chapter examines salary overpayments to teachers as a result of cuts made to pay of new entrants from 2011 onwards, which were not implemented in a timely manner.

This examination focused on payments from the Strategic Innovation Fund, the arrangements to monitor attendance in primary and post-primary schools and the causes of an overrun on a capital development project at Cork Institute of Technology.

This is a report examining the on the failure of the Department of Education & Science to ensure that there was up to date legislative authority for amendments to the statutory superannuation schemes of teachers.

This is a report concerning the Residential Institutions Redress Scheme and the examination of the estimate the State’s contingent liability arising from the establishment of the redress scheme, a review the negotiation of the Agreement with particular reference to the information, advice and arrangements for approval of the acts of negotiation and a review the implementation of the Agreement concluded as a result of those negotiations. An examination of the Allocation and Prioritisation of Expenditure for School Buildings, the Cork School of Music Public Private Partnership Project and the performance and mandate of the National Educational Psychological Service.

This is a report establishing the extent to which the Department has implemented the Joint Review Group’s recommendations and the effects of their implementation on overtime and staffing levels and on general operation of the Examination Branch.

This is a report on the Schools IT 2000 Programme, to evaluate the method chosen to channel grants, examine the procedures in use in schools for the procurement of computer equipment, confirm that equipment and software acquired with grant assistance is in place in schools, establish that purchases made by schools comply with the specifications laid down by NCTE and to establish that the grants paid were properly accounted for.

This is a report on the Financial Controls at Schools, Education Centres and Control Weaknesses found at Youth Encounter Projects.