A recent audit found department-wide internal financial controls were unsatisfactory. A follow-up audit of the department's communications division also turned up serious concerns over how procurement rules were followed, including over tendering for €735,000 in contracts.
Vat reduction was the clearest Budget 2026 success for the Buswells NGO and lobby-group crowd. Everyone else had to settle for compromises in a budget that the finance minister said could not achieve everything.
The capital allocations in Budget 2026 simply confirm those in the National Development Plan. The Government’s challenge is “barriers to delivery,” Jack Chambers said.
It’s a big mixed bag this year. The hospitality sector got its much anticipated Vat cut and R&D tax credits were expanded. Film and games will be happy but start-ups are left feeling cold.
The Government hopes to boost delivery as it lags behind targets amid a constant crisis. But will the moves have the desired effect and what for those trying to get on the housing ladder or struggling to make rent?
The businessman behind a hotel and two city-centre Dublin pubs accepts he traded recklessly and will be disqualified as a director for a period yet to be determined by the court.
A company run by waste mogul Eamon Waters has finalised work to convert a major Merrion Road office block into a 622-bed centre as private companies look to answer a call from Government for commercial help to plug a gap in State-run accommodation.
The privacy ruling restricting access to European data in China will have a “severe impact” on the platform, TikTok claims as it pushes to extend a stay on penalties including a €530m fine over data transfers.
Enterprise department records shows civil servants raised alarm bells after a landmark WRC decision landed it with a €2.9m bill from the dwindling fund for social insurance and pension benefits.
The utility group, which operates across the island of Ireland, sold for at least €2.5 billion, including debt, to a French private investment firm.
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