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INDEX

References are to page numbers in the Final Report.

A. ACCOUNTING OFFICERS

Cromien, Seán (Department of Finance) 157, 178, 179, 180, 181

Curran, Philip (Office of the Revenue Commissioners) 183, 257, 265

Donlon, John (Department of Industry and Commerce) 401, 501, 583

Doris, Antoinette (Office of the Commissioners of Charitable Donations and Bequests) 429

Dorr, Noel (Department of Foreign Affairs) 455, 473

Dowling, Michael (Department of Agriculture and Food) 117, 601

Fagan, William P. (Office of the Ombudsman) 293

Graham, Patrick (Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General) 383

Hurley, John (Department of Health) 535

Keaveney, Raymond (National Gallery) 81

Keegan, Michael (Department of Labour) 228

Lannon, Brendan (Civil Service Commission) 95

Liddy, Michael (Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions) 385

Lindsay, Noel (Department of Education) 351, 355, 367, 477, 498, 499

Linehan, Thomas P. (Central Statistics Office) 219

Loughrey, John (Department of Energy, Forestry) 442, 559

Mahony, John (Office of Public Works) 58

Matthews, Desmond (Department of Justice) 235, 243, 246, 252, 255

McCumiskey, Edward (Department of Social Welfare) 133, 277, 288

McDonagh, Bernard (Department of Communications) 300, 569

O’Connor, Thomas P. (Valuation and Ordnance Survey) 75

O’Mahony, Donal (Department of Tourism and Transport) 331

Ó Muircheartaigh, Fionán (Department of the Marine) 88

Ó hUiginn, Pádraig (Department of the Taoiseach) 519, 534

Olden, Seán (Roinn na Gaeltachta) 224

Rayel, Eamonn (Houses of the Oireachtas) 581

Russell, Matthew (Office of the Attorney General) 268

Scully, Gerard (Department of Defence) 104, 115

Troy, Thomas (Department of the Environment) 307

B. OTHER WITNESSES

Comptroller and Auditor General (Comments by) 105, 114, 119, 134, 143, 147, 148, 162, 163, 166, 167, 168, 170, 173, 176, 185, 186, 195, 204, 208, 211, 213, 214, 231, 233, 234, 236, 242, 257, 261, 275, 279, 301, 308, 313, 315, 321, 332, 351, 355, 363, 365, 368, 383, 395, 402, 404, 405, 410, 412, 416, 420, 425, 456, 460, 478, 480, 482, 486, 487, 491, 494, 496, 502, 511, 514, 515, 520, 522, 530, 533, 536, 538, 540, 546, 554, 560, 570, 574, 597, 602, 611, 615

Carey, Robert (Department of Finance) 447

Drain, Liam (Department of Finance) 323

Edwards, Louisa (Department of Finance) 459

Gallagher, Colm (Department of Finance) 438

Glavey, Fergus (Department of Finance) 605

Guilfoyle, Michael (Department of Finance) 141

Hickey, Gerry (Department of Finance) 604

Howard, Patrick (Department of Finance) 424

Kyne, Sarah (Department of Finance) 384

McSweeney, Niall (Department of Finance) 100, 256, 273

O’Farrell, James (Department of Finance) 97, 100, 103, 221, 222, 386, 395

O’Sullivan, Eugene (Department of Finance) 346

Ryan, Phil (Department of Finance) 537, 541

C. DEPARTMENTS/OFFICES

Agriculture and Food

Bovine Tuberculosis and Brucellosis Eradication 6, 118, 605

Purchase of Computer Hardware and Software 6, 601

Attorney General’s Office 268

Central Statistice Office

Employment of Persons as Census Enumerators, Presiding Officers and Poll Clerks 16

Vote 219

Charitable Donations and Bequests 429

Civil Service Commission 95

Communications

Appropriations-in-Aid 18, 300, 569

Comptroller and Auditor General’s Office 383

Defence

Misappropriation of Stores 5, 104

Directors of Public Prosecutions’ Office 385

Education

Design Costs — Education Building Programme 23, 367

Employment of Substitute Teachers 22, 362

Public Service Early Retirement Scheme 20, 355

Purchase of Site by County Cork VEC 26, 490

Unapproved Borrowing by County Cork VEC 24, 487

VEC Deficits 25, 481

Third Level and Further Education 495, 499

First Level Education 498

Energy 442

Environment

Motor Vehicle Duties 19, 314

Grants to Housing Finance Agency plc 307

Finance

Service of the National Debt 163

Sale of Oil Company Shares 167

Post Office Savings Bank 169

Office of the Minister 178

Foreign Affairs

Suspense and Imprest Accounts 455

Garda Síochána 246

Health

Delays in Commissioning new Health Facilities after Completion 30, 544

Health Board Borrowings and “Letters of Comfort” 29, 539

Non Exchequer Funded Capital Suspense Account 28, 535

Houses of the Oireachtas and European Assembly 581

Industry and Commerce

Export Credit Insurance Scheme 31, 409

Property Sales by the IDA and SFADCo 33, 420, 501, 583

Kilkenny Design Workshops 401

International Co-Operation 473

Justice 243

Labour 228

Land Registry / Registry of Deeds 255

National Gallery 81

Marine 88

Miscellaneous Expenses 180

Office of Public Works

National Monuments 62

Dublin Castle 64

National Lottery Suspense Account 67

Wildlife Service 68

Development of Canals 71

Ombudsman’s Office 293

Prisons

Misappropriation of Moneys in Prisoners’ Deposit Accounts 17, 241

Buildings and Equipment 235

Revenue Commissioners

Assessment and Collection 186

Collection of Outstanding Taxes 212

Repayment of Taxes 257

Interest on Tax Repayments 260

Roinn na Gaeltachta 224

Secret Service 179

Social Welfare

Central Records System 9, 133, 148

Inadequacies in the Data Transmitted from Revenue 10, 135

Inadequacies in Recorded Information 12, 143

Recording of Credits (Duplicate Payments) 13, 143

Internal Control of Access to Records 146

Overpayments of Social Assistance and Social Insurance 15, 277

State Laboratory 179

Superannuation and Retired Allowances 180

Taoiseach

National Museum 519

Tourism and Transport

Aer Rianta — Grant and Appropriations-in-Aid 331

Valuation and Ordnance Survey 75

Appendices 621

The Department’s estimate of administration costs attributable to the programmes is £152 million including £14.5 million for 1988. The total net cost of the programmes on a historical cost basis is therefore estimated at £421 million to the end of 1988.