Issues also identified whereby ex-members should have had pension payments reduced when they took on roles in the public sector after retirement

Average nightly cost of about €860 per room paid for chief executive and official at four-star Cannes hotel

Department warned it would create more red tape and make it even harder to deliver infrastructure

Ireland more exposed than other European countries when it came to exports to the US, paper explained

Passengers have rights if bags fail to arrive at all or are damaged in transit with airlines responsible once you have checked them in

Broken down by programme, by far the biggest outlay was for Fair City

Productivity way behind Celtic Tiger levels, National Transport Authority warns as it eyes risks to major projects

More than 100,000 applicants were invited to take part in recruitment competitions during 2024 and 2025

Farmer protest prompted food board to spend extra on security

Internal papers say builders rushed to take advantage of levy waivers by registering commencements but that some projects were not progressing

Tourism promotion agency says material is held in publicly accessible library to support the promotion of Ireland

Many of the debts related to companies that went into liquidation during the pandemic or struggled to repay warehoused tax debt

Figures also show a sharp rise in the number of complaints lodged last year

Minister for Public Expenditure sought ‘radical options’ to deal with judicial reviews of planning and infrastructure issues

Department of Finance officials warned new corporation tax break could cost as much as €120m