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Book Synopsis Into the West (Tyrone and Fermanagh) Ltd by : Northern Ireland
Download or read book Into the West (Tyrone and Fermanagh) Ltd written by Northern Ireland and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2006-03-02 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The company Into the West (ITW) was established in 1997 as a partnership between the former Local Enterprise Development Unit and five district councils in Northern Ireland to promote local economic development in the Tyrone and Fermanagh area. Following a joint investigation by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment and the Local Government Auditor into allegations of financial impropriety and poor management controls involving considerable sums of public money, ITW's activities were suspended from March 2002, and the company entered voluntary liquidation in June 2004. This report by the Northern Ireland Audit Office focuses on ITW's use of overseas agents (based in Australia, New Zealand and North America) to help promote joint business ventures between local firms and overseas companies. It draws a number of conclusions in relation to: the standard of documentation, the appointment of agents and the contractual arrangements involved, management and control procedures, payments to agents and performance, and the poor planning of a proposed visit to Australia; and based on these findings sets out a number of good practice recommendations for the use of agents by government departments and other public bodies in the future.
Book Synopsis The upgrade of the Belfast to Bangor railway line by : Northern Ireland. Audit Office
Download or read book The upgrade of the Belfast to Bangor railway line written by Northern Ireland. Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-03-22 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 2000-01, the Department for Regional Development has provided £155 million for capital investment in the rail network in Northern Ireland. In January 2001, the Department approved a project costing £14.7 million to upgrade the Belfast to Bangor railway line, one of the busiest railway lines in Northern Ireland carrying nearly 2 million passengers a year. However, this NIAO report finds that the project experienced a number of difficulties, resulting in a very significant overspend and late delivery, with a final cost of almost £34 million, and completion in September 2002 delayed by nine months later than planned. The problems were the result of failures in several key areas, and in addition to the increased cost of the project, there is uncertainty as to whether it has delivered all of its intended benefits. The original specification of a 90 mph speed limit was reduced to 70 mph and other works on bridges and sea defences were removed from the contract to reduce costs. The report makes a number of recommendations to improve performance in relation to: economic appraisal; construction procurement and project management; records management; ex-gratia payments to staff; corporate governance; and departmental control of capital projects.
Book Synopsis Outpatients by : Northern Ireland Audit Office
Download or read book Outpatients written by Northern Ireland Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-04-19 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2005-06 some £259 million was spent on outpatient services in Northern Ireland. A perennial cause of inefficiency in the provision of these services has been patients' failure to attend appointments and the cancellation of clinics by Trusts. In September 2006 almost 15,000 consultant-led clinic sessions were cancelled and there were 200,000 cases of patients not attending. A survey found that some 10 per cent of outpatients are "not seen" through cancellation or non-attendance, an opportunity cost of £11.6 million. Health service managers and clinicians need to monitor non-attendance/cancellation rates closely, in order to clarify the factors influencing them, and to allow planning of effective strategies aimed at minimising any loss of time and resources. The report also notes that outpatient services run by healthcare professionals other than consultants are not covered in the weekly statistical management information currently collected: if these are included outpatient activity levels are twice that officially reported. Changes to the way in which patients and general practitioners access outpatient services are being implemented and they should reduce waiting times and have an impact on cancelled clinics and missed appointments.
Book Synopsis Improving Literacy and Numeracy in Schools by : Northern Ireland
Download or read book Improving Literacy and Numeracy in Schools written by Northern Ireland and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2006-03-29 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Good governance by : Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Audit Office
Download or read book Good governance written by Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-05-04 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strengthening governance in the public sector is seen as a means of improving the capability of public bodies to deliver high quality services. The need to promote and encourage good corporate governance within departments and arms length bodies (ALBs) in Northern Ireland has been underscored by several high profile cases of weaknesses which became the subject of recent NIAO/Public Accounts Committee reports: the Northern Ireland Tourist Board, education and library boards, and LEDU. This report, based on a review of six departments and ten of their ALBs, examines three main areas: (1) structural relationships; (2) management of sponsorship risks; (3) accountability. Structures within departments for dealing with sponsored bodies should be clearly defined with clear channels of management, accountability and communication. A coherent strategic management approach should promote consistency of business objectives. Departments and ALBs should co-operate in setting objectives, agreeing targets. Departments should ensure that ALBs have in place necessary financial and management controls and procedures. On risk, departments should have processes in place for the identification and management of risks associated with sponsorship, and these should be regularly reviewed. Internal audit can provide assurance on risk management. To safeguard accountability, effective liaison, reporting and monitoring arrangements are required. ALB boards, and departmental and ALB audit committees have crucial roles in accountability.
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Book Synopsis Governance Issues in the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment's Former Local Enterprise Development Unit in Relation to the Establishment and Oversight of the Emerging Business Trust Loan and Venture Funds by : Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Audit Office
Download or read book Governance Issues in the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment's Former Local Enterprise Development Unit in Relation to the Establishment and Oversight of the Emerging Business Trust Loan and Venture Funds written by Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2006-02-09 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report examines major weaknesses in the part played by the former Local Enterprise Development Unit (LEDU) in the establishment and oversight of the Emerging Business Trust (EBT). The ETB was created in 1996 with funds of £3 million provided by the International Fund for Ireland and £0.75 million by LEDU, mainly administering a loan fund. In 2000 EBT also established a venture fund, with a total funding of £0.6 million. EBT voluntarily ceased to carry on business in April 2005, and a liquidator was appointed to wind up the affairs of both the loan and venture funds. Invest Northern Ireland (a development agency which assumed the responsibilities of LEDU in 2002) carried out an investigation, which identified a long list of failings: conflicts of interest, especially involving a LEDU board member who was also a partner in MTF Chartered Accountants who were the managing agents of both funds; LEDU's failure to follow its own procedures; normal public sector rules on competitive tendering were not followed; a high level of bad debt (£1.1 million was written off); insufficient monitoring by LEDU. NIAO finds that many of these failings show non-observance of the Public Accounts Committee's recommendations in its report "The proper conduct of public business" (HC 154, 8th report session 1993-94). The poor standards of administration fell far below the normal standards operating elsewhere in the Northern Ireland public sector. Invest Northern Ireland and the Department have undertaken a number of actions and current corporate governance arrangements are very different. NIAO believes there are lessons of relevance here to the wider public sector.
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Book Synopsis Political Transition by : Paul Gready
Download or read book Political Transition written by Paul Gready and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2003-04-20 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how political transformations affect people's memories and identities.
Book Synopsis Introducing Global Englishes by : Nico Hess
Download or read book Introducing Global Englishes written by Nico Hess and published by Scientific e-Resources. This book was released on 2019-08-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is estimated that "e;the number of native English speakers is 300 million to 450 million."e; More than one billion people are believed to speak some form of English. Although the numbers vary, it is widely accepted that hundreds of millions of people around the world speak English, whether as a native, second or a foreign language. English, in some form, has become the native or unofficial language of a majority of the countries around the world today. "e;In 20 to 30 countries around the world, English is merging with native languages to create hybrid Englishes."e; This comprehensive study of Introducing Global Englishes indented to be useful and popular among students because of the simplicity and directness of explanations of the various terms and concepts, its wealth of illustrative examples enables the reader to assimilate the content without being intimidated by its range and scope. Written in a very careful manner keeping in view of the course requirements it is aimed at familiarising students with the vibrant currents of thought that have enriched the literary enterprise of our time.
Book Synopsis Peace Without Consensus by : Dr Mary-Alice C Clancy
Download or read book Peace Without Consensus written by Dr Mary-Alice C Clancy and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Peace Without Consensus' demonstrates that the rise of Sinn Féin and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) was not 'inevitable'. Rather, it argues that critics who blame Northern Ireland's power-sharing institutions for the electoral triumph of the political 'extremes' in 2003 have not fully considered how the US, British and Irish governments contributed to this outcome. Through interviews with key US, British and Irish officials this groundbreaking analysis, which represents the first examination of the Bush administration's vital role in the peace process, demonstrates that Washington and Dublin were considering a deal between the DUP and Sinn Féin as early as 2002. Profiled in the Guardian, the Observer, BBC Radio Four, the Irish Independent and in Henry McDonald's 'Gunsmoke and Mirrors', Mary-Alice C. Clancy's theoretically informed and empirically grounded book presents new and salient lessons for other regions embroiled in conflict and should be read by all those interested in Northern Ireland's peace process and US foreign policy.
Book Synopsis Audit of assumptions for budget 2007 by : Great Britain: National Audit Office
Download or read book Audit of assumptions for budget 2007 written by Great Britain: National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-03-21 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report by the National Audit Office, made under sections 156 and 157 of the Finance Act 1998, examines the conventions and assumptions underlying the Treasury's fiscal projections within the 2007 Budget (HCP 342, session 2006-07; ISBN 9780102944556).
Book Synopsis The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by :
Download or read book The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge written by and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V.1-20 are, like missing vols. 21-26, also freely available online at the the China-America Digital Academic Library (CADAL), & can be accessed with the following individual urls: http://lookup.lib.hku.hk/lookup/bib/B3144507Xv1 Note: Click to view v.1 via CADAL. -- http://lookup.lib.hku.hk/lookup/bib/B3144507Xv2 Note: Click to view v.2 via CADAL http://lookup.lib.hku.hk/lookup/bib/B3144507Xv3 Note: Click to view v.3 via CADAL http://lookup.lib.hku.hk/lookup/bib/B3144507Xv4 Note: Click to view v.4 via CADAL. -- http://lookup.lib.hku.hk/lookup/bib/B3144507Xv5 Note: Click to view v.5 via CADAL. -- http://lookup.lib.hku.hk/lookup/bib/B3144507Xv6 Note: Click to view v.6 via CADAL. -- http://lookup.lib.hku.hk/lookup/bib/B3144507Xv7 Note: Click to view v.7 via CADAL. -- http://lookup.lib.hku.hk/lookup/bib/B3144507Xv8 Note: Click to view v.8 via CADAL. -- http://lookup.lib.hku.hk/lookup/bib/B3144507Xv9 Note: Click to view v.9 via CADAL. -- http://lookup.lib.hku.hk/lookup/bib/B3144507Xv10 Note: Click to view v.10 via CADAL. -- http://lookup.lib.hku.hk/lookup/bib/B3144507Xv11 Note: Click to view v.11 via CADAL. -- http://lookup.lib.hku.hk/lookup/bib/B3144507Xv12 Note: Click to view v.12 via CADAL. -- http://lookup.lib.hku.hk/lookup/bib/B3144507Xv13 Note: Click to view v.13 via CADAL. -- http://lookup.lib.hku.hk/lookup/bib/B3144507Xv14 Note: Click to view v.14 via CADAL. -- http://lookup.lib.hku.hk/lookup/bib/B3144507Xv15 Note: Click to view v.15 via CADAL. -- http://lookup.lib.hku.hk/lookup/bib/B3144507Xv16 Note: Click to view v.16 via CADAL. -- http://lookup.lib.hku.hk/lookup/bib/B3144507Xv17 Note: Click to view v.17 via CADAL. -- http://lookup.lib.hku.hk/lookup/bib/B3144507Xv18 Note: Click to view v.18 via CADAL. -- http://lookup.lib.hku.hk/lookup/bib/B3144507Xv19 Note: Click to view v.19 via CADAL. -- http://lookup.lib.hku.hk/lookup/bib/B3144507Xv20 Note: Click to view v.20 via CADAL.
Book Synopsis The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by : Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
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Book Synopsis Last Voices of the Irish Revolution by : Tom Hurley
Download or read book Last Voices of the Irish Revolution written by Tom Hurley and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2023-11-02 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Irish Civil War ended in 1923. Eighty years on, documentary-maker Tom Hurley wondered if there were many civilians and combatants left from across Ireland who had experienced the years 1919 to 1923, their prelude and their aftermath. What memories had they, what were their stories and how did they reflect on those turbulent times? In early 2003, he recorded the experiences of 18 people, conducting 2 further interviews abroad in 2004. Tom spoke to a cross section (Catholic, Protestant, Unionist and Nationalist) who were in their teens or early twenties during the civil war. The chronological approach he has taken spans 50 years, beginning with the oldest interviewee's birth in 1899 and ending when the Free State became a republic in 1949. Last Voices of the Irish Revolution.
Book Synopsis Springvale Educational Village Project by : Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Audit Office
Download or read book Springvale Educational Village Project written by Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2006-11-30 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The project to build a higher education campus at Springvale in Belfast was first proposed in 1993, and in 1997 the University of Ulster and the Belfast Institute for Further and Higher Education submitted a joint proposal to the Department of Education in Northern Ireland to build three educational facilities on the site, including a campus for 3,000 students covering higher and future education courses. This project was designed to develop partnerships between educational providers and local communities to address the particular educational, cultural and social needs of West and North Belfast, as well as benefiting Northern Ireland in general. It was also intended to promote regeneration in an area marked by significant economic and social deprivation and educational underachievement. However, in October 2002, the University announced its withdrawal from the project due to financial concerns over its affordability. At this point, over nine million pounds had been spent on the project, with one of the three planned facilities (a community outreach centre) built and functional. This NIAO report examines the development and management of the project to identify lessons to be drawn for the future, and overall it concludes that, given the length of time spent developing this project and the major public and private funding commitments involved, it should have been handled much better, particularly in terms of risk management. Key lessons highlighted include the need for: an agreed and clear strategic vision from the outset; a single independent body established to oversee project management where two or more institutions are involved; and better communication with local communities on the risks involved to promote realistic community expectations.
Book Synopsis Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Commissioners, March 1865 to May 1866 by : Great Britain. Royal Commission on Railways
Download or read book Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Commissioners, March 1865 to May 1866 written by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Railways and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
