Dublin City Council blocked journalists’ requests for access to private emergency accommodation payments for almost a decade. The public procurement of multi-million-euro contracts should never be a state secret.
In 2023, the State paid private property owners €140m – and rising – to put a roof over the heads of Dubliners left out in the cold by the housing crisis. In the first part of a major series, we name the biggest earners.
The OECD wants Ireland to screen public procurement for collusion between bidders. Bring on artificial intelligence, says Paschal Donohoe.
This is the second contract the company has secured under a government dynamic purchasing system in two years. The first, for €46m, was awarded by the HSE in 2023.
This summer, a landmark building changed hands for €23 million; meanwhile Dublin City Council agreed to pay nearly four times that price to use it for emergency accommodation over 10 years. Its landlord appears in a series of similar deals.
The four things the state must do if its to regain the ability to do very hard things.
Deep inside the broadcaster’s latest data dump lie years of internal documents highlighting issues with procurement, tendering, unapproved spending and rogue taxi bills. Here’s what we found.
The world runs on competition. But it's not necessarily the best way to deliver complex capital projects.
A new study says civil servants matter to infrastructure projects. When the state is investing billions on infrastructure, competent officials are a good investment.
Careful project selection is being supplanted with advance political commitment to unevaluated schemes, after which "delivery" becomes an obligation regardless of value for money.
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