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.
Analysis of more than €1.6 billion of HSE spending shows just one recruitment firm received €478 million in less than four years and ten others shared over €1 billion – for an unknown number of staff.
For decades, Government policy has been to outsource social housing to private landlords while telling them that they needn’t bother with common public supply transparency obligations. This is coming back to bite one of their own.
National Broadband Ireland and the government have decided to lift the veil of secrecy surrounding the rural connectivity plan, answering The Currency’s questions last week. Rules applicable to listed companies could helpfully replace such ad-hoc disclosures on public-private partnerships.
Two months after National Broadband Ireland’s first accounts raised multiple questions, the company sits down with The Currency and provides answers including its full list of shareholders and the conditions attached to controversial loan funding.
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