Share High spending on education flagged [sbpost.ie]
- Published: 26 September 2010
A report delivered to the government has identified areas of significant weakness in spending controls in the education sector.
The report from Comptroller & Auditor General John Buckley covers almost €2 billion in exchequer spending and has outlined proposals for major reform in the sector.
Among the issues examined by the report, which is being studied by the Department of Education & Skills, were payments from the state’s €500 million Strategic Innovation Fund.
It also looked at arrangements to monitor attendance in primary and post-primary schools and the causes of an overrun on a capital development project at Cork Institute of Technology (CIT).
Other issues examined included the operation of an early retirement scheme by the state training standards body Fetac, certain remuneration and expenses in the Royal Irish Academy of Music, and the current status of the Residential Institutions Redress Scheme and related matters.
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