Verona Murphy’s path to Ceann Comhairle role marked by controversy
Outspoken Independent TD was deselected by Fine Gael as a candidate for 2020 general election following comments about asylum seekers
Public Accounts Committee
PAC members ‘furious’ after bid to quiz children’s hospital organisations before election is unsuccessful
Social Democrats TD Catherine Murphy says refusal of bodies to appear before committee was ‘unacceptable’
PAC wants children’s hospital organisations to appear at final meeting before election
Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board say they can attend at a future date but not this week
OPW to defend ballooning cost of modular homes for people fleeing Ukraine
Public Accounts Committee will also quiz OPW on progress of flood relief schemes
Crisis upon crisis: What next for Mary Lou McDonald and Sinn Féin as an election looms?
The party faces strategic problems over where it positions itself and who its core voters are. And as it’s trying to figure all this out, it gets hit with one controversy after another
‘Awful ambiguity’: Sinn Féin’s woes and Brian Stanley’s independent ambition make Laois even tighter
The fallout from the TD’s surprising resignation from Sinn Féin has created confusion in a recently redrawn constituency and left many local voters eager for clarity
Brian Stanley controversy: Government ‘bottled’ fight to block new PAC chair nomination, SF says
Mairéad Farrell was sent forward to Dáil by committee with unanimous approval after Mr Stanley’s resignation from party
Sinn Féin nominates Galway West TD Mairéad Farrell as new PAC chair
Party names replacement for former TD Brian Stanley on influential committee
Sinn Féin row with Brian Stanley deepens over referral of claims to Garda
Uncertainty in Garda about nature of complaint filed, with one source saying it was not filed in Dublin or with Garda HQ
Brian Stanley: Everything we know so far about the controversy surrounding the former Sinn Féin TD
Laois-Offaly deputy resigned from party last weekend, adding to the problems facing it on both sides of Border
No co-operation with new SF PAC chair until McDonald addresses party’s controversies, say TDs
Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael members of committee say there are outstanding questions relating to resignation of Brian Stanley
Brian Stanley quits Sinn Féin after ‘gross misconduct’ allegation; party refers matter to gardaí
Preliminary conclusion of gross misconduct decided before Public Accounts Committee chairman Stanley resigned from party
Sinn Féin woes pile up with latest revelations
Resignation of PAC chair Brian Stanley amid internal inquiry and ‘counter allegation’ adds to multifaceted crisis facing party leader Mary Lou McDonald
Road Safety Authority has spent €2.5m on PR since 2020
Details of RSA public relations spend provided after ‘tricky’ TDs advice prompted Freedom of Information request
PAC chairman hits out at ‘sky-high prices’ of affordable homes in south Dublin
Land Development Agency tells TDs there’s ‘huge interest’ in Shankill properties despite high prices
Expenditure on housing aid schemes poor value for taxpayer, Oireachtas committee notes
Housing assistance payment and Rental Accommodation Scheme fail to provide the State with long-term assets, report states
Tenants in cost-rental homes paying €1,000 less per month than open market, PAC to be told
TDs to hear Land Development Agency has pipeline of 37 sites to deliver about 17,000 homes
Children’s science museum cost fears rise as detail of €560,000 legal bill emerges
TD says proposed €70m project for Dublin could turn into a ‘mini national children’s hospital’
Former UL president being paid €175,000 while on year-long sabbatical, PAC hears
Public Accounts Committee hearing: Kerstin May resigned as UL chief last June and is on leave in new post as professor of visual culture
‘I wasn’t responsible’: Former OPW minister says he learned of Oireachtas bike shed cost in media
Patrick O’Donovan agrees with view of Pashcal Donohoe, who said he was ‘embarrassed’ at price paid for structure
Doubling of build cost for Ukrainians’ modular homes ‘unacceptable’, says PAC chairman
State agreements being entered into with contractors are not fit for purpose, according to Sinn Féin TD Brian Stanley
Cost of rapid-build accommodation set to double to potentially €442,000 per unit, C&AG says
Value-for-money report also reveals Revenue assessment that retailer Dunnes Stores owed State more than €36 million was settled for €5 million
Children’s hospital completion date now June 2025, TDs to be told
Board overseeing €2.2 billion project says contractors will ‘not be given another cent’ as Taoiseach warns of penalties
Siún Ní Raghallaigh, seven months after RTÉ affair: the Oireachtas hearings were ‘vicious. People were unfairly treated, as if they had no rights’
Former RTÉ chairwoman on ‘vicious’ Dáil hearings, a missed opportunity to fund the national broadcaster and life after being in the public glare of the Montrose psychodrama
‘Your bike could still get wet’: Review into ‘inexcusable’ €336,000 bike shed at Leinster House requested
OPW says public money must be spent ‘transparently’ as Minister of State confirms review into cost
PR firm warned Road Safety Authority about ‘tricky’ Public Accounts Committee members
Dublin public relations agency Drury provided short biographical notes on each TD
New national children’s hospital board set to sanction project’s builders, correspondence shows
‘Continued failure by BAM’ to deliver a compliant programme of works for facility, Public Accounts Committee told
‘Eyesore’ Grand Canal barriers have cost €125,000 to date with four future options in consideration, PAC told
Barriers were erected in May along 2km-stretch of canal to prevent homeless migrants pitching tents
Nature of Road Safety Authority’s funding a ‘crucial conflict of interest’, PAC hears
Almost all of the body’s €100 million in income for 2022 came from fees for its services including NCTs and driver testing
Taoiseach Simon Harris leads tributes following death of former Cork TD Bernard Allen
Mr Allen (79) served as a Minister of State and as chairman of the Public Accounts Committee
How did today’s Supreme Court ruling over Angela Kerins’s claim for damages come about?
Angela Kerins appeared before the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee amid public controversy about the charity sector in 2014
Supreme Court to rule on appeal by Angela Kerins in PAC damages claim
Lawyers for former Rehab chief executive claim client subjected to ‘witch hunt’ style of questioning by committee
State has ‘legal obligation’ to deliver National Children’s Science Centre which could cost €70m
Plan questioned after similar facility, ‘the Explorium’, reopened this year after pandemic
PAC chairman: close public contract ‘loopholes’ to reduce risk to taxpayer money
‘Major overhaul’ needed in how public bodies and government are signing off on contracts, says Brian Stanley
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