The Dáil Public Accounts Committee says it will investigate the findings outlined in the report published today by the Comptroller and Auditor General.
Among its findings was the 2008 payment of €225,000 to the Director of the Royal Irish Academy for a part-time post.
It also found that pensions were awarded to four FETAC staff without proper sanction.
In a statement, Chairman of the Committee Bernard Allen said last September the C&AG had highlighted practices in universities whereby some staff were paid unauthorised salaries and bonuses.
He said regrettably this report seemed to show more of the same.
In a report out today, the Comptroller said the remuneration package granted to the Director of the Royal Irish Academy was higher than that of benchmarked post holders.
The report says because the body is in receipt of substantial State-funding, its expenditure should be broadly in line with public sector norms.
The C&AG's examination was carried out as part of an audit of the Academy's 2008 financial statement.
The C&AG has also criticised a Government research fund established as part of a programme of investment in the third-level sector.
Today's report says awards made under the Strategic Innovation Fund should have been more directly linked to measurable outcomes.
The C&AG report also highlights a 45% overrun in the construction costs of two buildings at Cork Institute of Technology.
It blames a kind of contract that is no longer in use for the overrun.
