Muiris O Cearbhaill
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Scandal of the wasted €4.4m at DCU after misunderstanding (opens the original)
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A misunderstanding between Dublin City University (DCU) and the Department of Higher Education has seen €4.4million of taxpayers’ cash wasted. The university has written off the €4.38million in professional fees associated with the development of a new student accommodation block, with nothing to show for it. Members of the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) described the revelations as ‘absolutely scandalous’ and said the write-off ‘called into question the whole project appraisal process’.
AI risk to civil servants' jobs (opens the original)
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The Government is considering plans to replace middle management and administrative roles in the bloated public service with artificial intelligence systems. Senior ministers have stressed that the plan – which is in its early stages – is to unfold over the next decade and will not result in mass lay-offs but will aim to free up personnel that can be redeployed. It is one of several strategies under consideration within the Department of Public Expenditure to stem ‘unsustainable’ growth within p
FF colleagues criticising TD as 'very presumptuous' for unusual reason (opens the original)
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FIANNA Fáil TDs have privately criticised their alleged drink-driving colleague Malcolm Byrne after he outlined his intentions to propose legislation on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the coming weeks. The Mail has learned that Mr Byrne emailed colleagues notifying them of at least two new pieces of legislation he said he ‘would hope to introduce’ this term. Fianna Fáil deputies have privately criticised him for his intention to progress national legislation as ‘very presumptuous’, claiming the
Amount solicitor earned in legal aid fees for one court show revealed (opens the original)
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A solicitor will earn over €31,000 in criminal legal aid fees for a single court appearance representing a client charged with 130 money laundering offences, the Mail can reveal. Invoice data reveal the solicitor submitted claims to the State for payment on a fee-per-charge basis, a practice that has been scrapped under a new funding model. It comes as the Justice Minister Jim O’Callaghan has dug his heels in in a deepening row with solicitors over the new fee model. Solicitors began their first
'Unsustainable' pay dispute means many new homes can't be sold (opens the original)
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No new Eircodes have been issued for weeks amid an ‘unsustainable’ pay dispute between surveyors at the land register and the Government, the Irish Daily Mail can reveal. Surveyors have effectively staged a sit-in at their office in Dublin’s Phoenix Park and are due to hold a ballot over industrial action over the three-year row. There is now a shortage of surveyors – who calculate coordinates for Eircodes – which is impacting Tailte Éireann’s ability to issue new postcodes. New homes often cann
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