Housing Agency spends €7,000 on French Riviera hotel stays for officials
Average nightly cost of about €860 per room paid for chief executive and official at four-star Cannes hotel
Department of Public Expenditure objected to adding 190 staff to energy and water regulator
Department warned it would create more red tape and make it even harder to deliver infrastructure
US tariffs may hit employment here by 3%, Government analysis warns
Ireland more exposed than other European countries when it came to exports to the US, paper explained
Lost luggage: what action should you take if your bags don’t arrive with your flight?
Passengers have rights if bags fail to arrive at all or are damaged in transit with airlines responsible once you have checked them in
RTÉ spent €277,000 on costumes and clothing last year
Broken down by programme, by far the biggest outlay was for Fair City
Skills shortages one of several barriers to delivering €24bn in transport infrastructure
Productivity way behind Celtic Tiger levels, National Transport Authority warns as it eyes risks to major projects
Nearly one-third of public sector job candidates fail to show for interview or assessment
More than 100,000 applicants were invited to take part in recruitment competitions during 2024 and 2025
Bord Bia sit-in cost taxpayers €220,000
Farmer protest prompted food board to spend extra on security
Concern that housing commencements might not result in new homes coming to market quickly
Internal papers say builders rushed to take advantage of levy waivers by registering commencements but that some projects were not progressing
Fáilte Ireland spends €900,000 in two years on promotional photoshoots
Tourism promotion agency says material is held in publicly accessible library to support the promotion of Ireland
Revenue wrote off more than €270m in unpaid taxes last year
Many of the debts related to companies that went into liquidation during the pandemic or struggled to repay warehoused tax debt
Hundreds of DPC complaints still unresolved
Figures also show a sharp rise in the number of complaints lodged last year
Jack Chambers suggested ban on ‘no foal, no fee’ environmental cases for judicial review
Minister for Public Expenditure sought ‘radical options’ to deal with judicial reviews of planning and infrastructure issues
New tax break for apartments would cut costs by just 1%, officials warned Government
Department of Finance officials warned new corporation tax break could cost as much as €120m
Migration system needs reform to effectively sustain workforce and public services – report
Potential for abuse of educational visas seen as an area of concern as is lack of infrastructure to enable new arrivals integrate