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Foyle MLA Delargy: Substance Use Strategy must be implemented

Sinn Féin MLA Pádraig Delargy has welcomed the publication of the Public Accounts Committee report into addiction services. However, the representative for Foyle said the report's findings showed how important it was for the Department of Health's ...

01 Feb 2022 at 14:40

National News

RTÉ accused of acting like ‘rogue employer’ at Public Accounts Committee

RTE has been accused of behaving like a “rogue employer” after failing to commit to paying benefits to staff who missed out because they were wrongly classified as freelance workers. The broadcaster’s director general Dee Forbes declined to give ...

20 Jan 2022 at 15:56

Northern Ireland

Huge concerns over use of ministerial directions in NI, committee chair says

Huge concerns exist over the prevalence of Stormont ministers making major spending decisions against the advice of senior civil servants, a committee chair has said. Daniel McCrossan, chair of Stormont’s Public Accounts Committee, was reacting ...

07 Mar 2024 at 16:15

Northern Ireland

Fact check: the details behind Boris Johnson’s leaving speech

In his farewell speech, Boris Johnson listed a host of commitments he insisted the government was “delivering”. Here the PA news agency looks at them in detail. – Delivering Brexit The former prime minister claimed in his farewell speech that ...

06 Sept 2022 at 15:27

Northern Ireland

Report finds ‘risks and weaknesses’ in public procurement processes

An Assembly committee has raised concern over a series of “significant risks and weaknesses” around public procurement processes in Northern Ireland. The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) expressed concern that there is no specific strategy in ...

21 Nov 2024 at 10:07

Northern Ireland

MLAs told of potential ‘road map’ to deal with outstanding RHI recommendations

A senior civil servant has told MLAs that he is hopeful a road map can be created to deal with outstanding recommendations from the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) Inquiry. Neil Gibson, permanent secretary at the Department of Finance, told ...

30 Jan 2025 at 20:11

Northern Ireland

Civil service must do better to deliver major capital projects, says Brady

Senior civil servants must do better to tackle delays and overspends in delivering major capital projects in Northern Ireland, Jayne Brady has said. But the head of Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS) warned there was no quick fix to ...

30 Jan 2025 at 18:37

Local News

MLAs told of potential ‘road map’ to deal with outstanding RHI recommendations

31 Jan 2025 at 09:29

Northern Ireland

System overseeing major capital projects involves ‘very little oversight’

The system overseeing major capital projects in Northern Ireland involves “little oversight” and “little accountability”, a DUP MLA has said. Cheryl Brownlee, deputy chairwoman of Stormont’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC), ...

06 Apr 2025 at 11:37

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