AdministrationPub Date : 2024-01-18DOI: 10.3917/admi.280.0062
G. Rolland
{"title":"Le Conservatoire du littoral, un outil au service des patrimoines naturels et paysagers","authors":"G. Rolland","doi":"10.3917/admi.280.0062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3917/admi.280.0062","url":null,"abstract":"Le littoral français est un espace qui présente tous les enjeux de l’aménagement du territoire : patrimoine national paysager et naturel, es-paces publics accessibles librement, préservation de la qualité et de la quantité des ressources en eau, densité croissante de population et urbanisation dynamique, etc. Les protections réglementaires sont complétées par la protection foncière du Conservatoire du littoral, créé en 1975 du fait des pressions spécifiques sur les rivages maritimes et lacustres. C’est un outil de l’État au service des territoires, grâce aux relations partenariales anciennes et opérationnelles avec les collectivités.","PeriodicalId":41890,"journal":{"name":"Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140504177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AdministrationPub Date : 2024-01-18DOI: 10.3917/admi.280.0065
Jean-Baptiste Butlen
{"title":"Sobriété foncière : atteindre le « zéro artificialisation nette des sols »","authors":"Jean-Baptiste Butlen","doi":"10.3917/admi.280.0065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3917/admi.280.0065","url":null,"abstract":"Chaque année, 24 000 ha d’espaces naturels, agricoles et forestiers sont urbanisés en moyenne en France, avec des conséquences écologiques et socioéconomiques. La France s’est donc fixée, dans le cadre de la loi « Climat et Résilience » (adoptée en 2021 et modifiée par la loi du 20 juillet 2023), l’objectif d’atteindre le « zéro artificialisation nette des sols » en 2050, avec un objectif intermédiaire de réduction de moitié de la consommation d’espaces naturels, agricoles et forestiers d’ici à 2031. Cette trajectoire progressive est à territorialiser dans les documents de planification et d’urbanisme, en adaptant l’effort de sobriété foncière à la réalité des besoins et enjeux locaux. De nouveaux modèles d’aménagement durable sont à réinventer, en conjuguant sobriété et qualité urbaine, et recyclant les friches, en optimisant la densité, tout en renforçant la présence de la nature en ville. Pour accompagner les territoires, plusieurs aides à l’ingénierie et aides économiques ont été déployées par le gouvernement, notamment dans le cadre du Fonds Vert.","PeriodicalId":41890,"journal":{"name":"Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140504043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AdministrationPub Date : 2023-12-22DOI: 10.2478/admin-2023-0024
Kevin De Barra
{"title":"Making internal audit count","authors":"Kevin De Barra","doi":"10.2478/admin-2023-0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/admin-2023-0024","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years the role of the internal audit function has gained increasing prominence and is now seen as a cornerstone in the overall governance of public sector bodies. This article explores the experience of 127 public sector bodies and illuminates key insights for public sector bodies seeking to realise more meaningful results from the efforts currently directed towards the internal audit function. Among the most significant research findings is the evidence that the function is not viewed by its most key stakeholders as a primary driver of continuous improvement. This finding identifies a disconnect between the real-world practice of internal audit function and the definition of the function across relevant academic literature, public policy and practitioner guidance. The author concludes that an overemphasis on assurance activities can be to the detriment of the other value-add functions which the internal audit function can deliver. While currently widely viewed as a divorced function, the real value of internal audit will only be realised by integrating it within the organisation. Such integration will allow the sharing of enterprise-wide learning, thus enabling the function to become a primary driver of a permanent culture of continuous improvement.","PeriodicalId":41890,"journal":{"name":"Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139022334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AdministrationPub Date : 2023-12-22DOI: 10.2478/admin-2023-0026
Catherine Lynch
{"title":"Parliamentary oversight: Oireachtas committees and the Dáil Committee on Public Accounts in the twenty-first century","authors":"Catherine Lynch","doi":"10.2478/admin-2023-0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/admin-2023-0026","url":null,"abstract":"Strong parliaments hold the government, its departments and the wider public administration to account. Such parliaments are built on strong and active committee systems. For a long time, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) was the only oversight committee consistently in place in the Houses of the Oireachtas. This article explains how the committee system has been gradually expanded and strengthened, and how its remit to oversee the actions of the government is wide. It explains the institutional factors that lead to the continued prominence of the PAC, including how it draws on the expert, independent reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General to conduct its oversight work, while noting that the PAC still faces the same challenges as other committees concerning a wide remit, finite resources and the multiple motivations of its membership. The work of the PAC is described and placed in the context of the financial scrutiny cycle which is being developed in the Houses of the Oireachtas. This is followed by a discussion of how the PAC manages its potentially wide remit to conduct <jats:italic>ex post</jats:italic> financial scrutiny of public expenditure, and the balance between what is referred to as ‘police-patrol’, rather than ‘fire-alarm’, scrutiny and the procedural changes which are designed to ensure that the PAC (with the authority of the Dáil) can examine and hold actors to account for the expenditure of any public money.","PeriodicalId":41890,"journal":{"name":"Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139023939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AdministrationPub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.2478/admin-2023-0025
Richard Boyle
{"title":"One hundred years of the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General in the newspapers","authors":"Richard Boyle","doi":"10.2478/admin-2023-0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/admin-2023-0025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41890,"journal":{"name":"Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139016930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AdministrationPub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.2478/admin-2023-0023
Colin Scott, Muiris MacCarthaigh
{"title":"Ireland’s first state agency: A century of change in the range and scope of functions of the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General","authors":"Colin Scott, Muiris MacCarthaigh","doi":"10.2478/admin-2023-0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/admin-2023-0023","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract A search of the Irish State Administration Database (ISAD, www.isad.ie), which records the origins, life cycle, policy domain and functions of all central public organisations since the foundation of the Irish state over a century ago, reveals that, following the formative and turbulent year of 1922, the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General was the first new agency formally established in 1923. The primacy given to what we might now refer to as a supreme audit institution (SAI) for the public sector reflects the importance of financial control to the effective functioning and legitimacy of the executive organs of the nascent state. In this paper we analyse the changing range and scope of functions undertaken by the Comptroller and Auditor General in its first century. We examine first the sustained growth in the number and type of public bodies subject to Comptroller and Auditor General scrutiny. Second, we look at the broadening in scope of audit functions beyond the traditional concerns of regularity, ensuring the money was spent for the purposes for which it was given (financial and compliance audit), to encompass wider values such as efficiency, economy and effectiveness and even performance, more broadly conceived. Finally, as well as the instrumental perspective on the role of the Comptroller and Auditor General’s Office, we reflect on the key relationships and cultural and symbolic dimensions of the Office’s work across time. From this analysis we draw some conclusions about the nature of financial control in the contemporary state, as compared with the early Irish state.","PeriodicalId":41890,"journal":{"name":"Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138993876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AdministrationPub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.2478/admin-2023-0028
Alice Kelly
{"title":"Synopsis of research undertaken by Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General officials as part of the Institute of Public Administration’s MEconSc in Policy Analysis","authors":"Alice Kelly","doi":"10.2478/admin-2023-0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/admin-2023-0028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41890,"journal":{"name":"Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138993751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AdministrationPub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.2478/admin-2023-0024
Kevin De Barra
{"title":"Making internal audit count","authors":"Kevin De Barra","doi":"10.2478/admin-2023-0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/admin-2023-0024","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In recent years the role of the internal audit function has gained increasing prominence and is now seen as a cornerstone in the overall governance of public sector bodies. This article explores the experience of 127 public sector bodies and illuminates key insights for public sector bodies seeking to realise more meaningful results from the efforts currently directed towards the internal audit function. Among the most significant research findings is the evidence that the function is not viewed by its most key stakeholders as a primary driver of continuous improvement. This finding identifies a disconnect between the real-world practice of internal audit function and the definition of the function across relevant academic literature, public policy and practitioner guidance. The author concludes that an overemphasis on assurance activities can be to the detriment of the other value-add functions which the internal audit function can deliver. While currently widely viewed as a divorced function, the real value of internal audit will only be realised by integrating it within the organisation. Such integration will allow the sharing of enterprise-wide learning, thus enabling the function to become a primary driver of a permanent culture of continuous improvement.","PeriodicalId":41890,"journal":{"name":"Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139022077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AdministrationPub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.2478/admin-2023-0027
Marie Léoutre
{"title":"The origins of the Committee on Public Accounts and its engagement with the Comptroller and Auditor General","authors":"Marie Léoutre","doi":"10.2478/admin-2023-0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/admin-2023-0027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41890,"journal":{"name":"Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138992215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AdministrationPub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.2478/admin-2023-0026
Catherine Lynch
{"title":"Parliamentary oversight: Oireachtas committees and the Dáil Committee on Public Accounts in the twenty-first century","authors":"Catherine Lynch","doi":"10.2478/admin-2023-0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/admin-2023-0026","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Strong parliaments hold the government, its departments and the wider public administration to account. Such parliaments are built on strong and active committee systems. For a long time, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) was the only oversight committee consistently in place in the Houses of the Oireachtas. This article explains how the committee system has been gradually expanded and strengthened, and how its remit to oversee the actions of the government is wide. It explains the institutional factors that lead to the continued prominence of the PAC, including how it draws on the expert, independent reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General to conduct its oversight work, while noting that the PAC still faces the same challenges as other committees concerning a wide remit, finite resources and the multiple motivations of its membership. The work of the PAC is described and placed in the context of the financial scrutiny cycle which is being developed in the Houses of the Oireachtas. This is followed by a discussion of how the PAC manages its potentially wide remit to conduct ex post financial scrutiny of public expenditure, and the balance between what is referred to as ‘police-patrol’, rather than ‘fire-alarm’, scrutiny and the procedural changes which are designed to ensure that the PAC (with the authority of the Dáil) can examine and hold actors to account for the expenditure of any public money.","PeriodicalId":41890,"journal":{"name":"Administration","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139025058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}