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Around €225 million of Exchequer funding has been written off in relation to three related rail projects.

The Cathaoirleach of the Committee of Public Accounts (PAC), Brian Stanley has said that the latest report from the State's spending watchdog, the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG), has highlighted a number of areas that PAC will examine further.

A total of €2.2m was paid out in performance-related payments to 262 staff at the National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) last year.

The High Court has overturned a decision by An Bord Pleanála, refusing permission for a proposed gas terminal in Co Kerry.

Almost a quarter of those receiving jobseekers' allowance over the past two years have been overpaid, new data shows.

The total expected cost for the so far incomplete deployment of a new financial management system for the HSE and other bodies is not yet known, almost ten years after its budget was approved and seven years since its roll out began.

The cost of building rapid-build modular homes for Ukrainians has more than doubled, according to the Comptroller and Auditor General.

The Department of Social Protection paid €92.6m to free travel operators last year, the latest report from the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) shows.

Revenue has acknowledged that confusion around approval requirements has led to delays in finalising repayments of the Sugar Sweetened Drinks Tax to some taxpayers.

The Job Initiative Scheme which has been closed to new applicants since 2004 cost the state €10.7m last year.

The State's spending watchdog, the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG), has found that financial controls have not operated as expected at the Department of Housing in respect of funding for the homelessness charity The Peter McVerry Trust.

Follow live as the office of the Comptroller and Auditor General publishes its report for 2023, including financial statements of 287 public bodies, with €309 billion of public money audited.

The escrow account holding the Apple tax funds incurred operating costs of €6m last year.

The Central Bank has exchanged almost €1.5m worth of old pound notes and coins over the past three years which people had stashed away since the introduction of the euro.

Bank of Ireland Group has appointed Akshaya Bhargava as its new Chair and Governor, following an international search process.

New figures from the Central Statistics Office show that the volume of retail sales decreased by 1.5% in August and was down by 2.5% on the same month last year.

The annual rate of inflation rose by just 0.2% this month compared with 1.1% in August, new figures from the Central Statistics Office show.

"Fortnite" video game maker Epic Games has today accused Alphabet's Google and Samsung, the world's largest Android phone manufacturer, of conspiring to protect Google's Play store from competition.

Inflation eased across a raft of key German states in September, preliminary data showed today, suggesting that the national inflation rate would also decrease further.

British real estate portal Rightmove has today rejected a sweetened $8.29 billion takeover bid from Rupert Murdoch's Australian property listing firm REA Group, saying the fourth bid still undervalued the company.