NI Audit Office

As for that RHI overrun, erm, that will be just £2 million per annum thank you very much?

Mick Fealty on July 5, 2017, 11:48 am | Readers 2536

For the record, here’s the NI Audit Office update on the RHI ‘scandal’: Of the 1,687 boilers installed prior to 18 November 2015 and which are currently in payment, 659 (39%) are using the boilers for more than 50% of the available hours in a year i.e. more than 12 hours a day and 7 days a week all year round with an RHI subsidy per boiler in 2016‐17 of at least £28,000. Of these 10 boilers are being used …

“Overall, the Audit Office found that the reporting of efficiencies was not comprehensive, transparent or meaningful.”

Pete Baker on December 11, 2012, 1:36 pm | Readers 51

As an Irish News report noted today, the Northern Ireland Audit Office has released a report examining “the delivery of £1,600 million in reported efficiency savings by Northern Ireland government departments between 2008 and 2011.” I don’t have time to delve into the detail in the report [pdf file 1.2mb], but here are the main findings noted in the associated press release. The measurement of departmental efficiencies It is important that all planned efficiency savings are capable of being measured. …

NI Auditor General: “This pattern has continued in 2010-11.”

Pete Baker on October 25, 2011, 4:24 pm | Readers 39

Last year the Comptroller and Auditor General for Northern Ireland, Kieran Donnelly, qualified “a larger number of [NI Executive department’s] accounts than usual” and highlighted his concern “that there [were] significant problems within the registered housing association sector in Northern Ireland.” As the NIAO press release notes, “This pattern has continued in 2010-11”. Six out of the nineteen NI Executive departmental resource accounts have received qualified audit opinions. The full report is available here. BBC NI business correspondent, Kevin Magee, notes what the report has …

“the scheme was poorly planned, badly managed and did not provide good value for money”

Pete Baker on September 16, 2011, 2:50 pm | Readers 33

We’ve already seen the Northern Ireland Audit Office report criticising the NI Department of Agriculture’s handling of the Farm Nutrient Management Scheme – the largest capital grant scheme ever run by the Department of Agriculture, through which some 4000 farmers received grants worth £121million. Now the BBC have reported that a draft report from the NI Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee, due to be published in 3 weeks time, will be equally damning. From the BBC report It is expected to conclude that …

“The Board should implement swiftly an action plan in response to the Independent Assessment Report”

Pete Baker on May 25, 2011, 1:38 pm | Readers 7

With the new members of the Northern Ireland Policing Board taking their seats, UTV notes the NI Audit Office’s report to the NI Assembly on “Continuous improvement arrangements in the Northern Ireland Policing Board”. From the UTV report The report into the Policing Board claims the board’s approach to evaluations needs to be reviewed and the assessment of police performance should be a mix of quantitative and qualitative indicators. Mr Donnelly claimed the focus should be on service quality rather than specific …

NI Water: Now that £28 million reduces to £550k…

Mick Fealty on September 6, 2010, 11:27 am | Readers 16

There are a number of issues worth picking up in the wake of the Minister’s performance at the Regional Development Committee. First, that figure of £28 million we’ve talked about before. We are greatly aided here by the fact that the contract audit upon which the IRT based it’s own report has now been put into the public domain by Nevin at the NALIL blog. The bad news for the so-called independent IRT is that a depth analysis utterly scuppers their view …