Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 January 2014

Public Accounts Committee

Oversight of Irish Water: Discussion

7:50 pm

Mr. John Barry:

I will go back to the start. We were asked to set up a highly complex and challenging project. Last night, I mentioned our project initiation document, PID. We created 17 subprojects to deliver the ultimate goal of setting up utility and so we have 17 different projects within the programme. That probably is not mentioned here but it is in the PID, which we will make available to the committee if it so wishes. One key element in that is to make sure there is proper integration across all those projects, that they all are working on the same timelines and towards achieving the same aims and that there is proper integration against all the different activities that are going on. I am unsure whether the Deputy got the description of the scope of lot No.4, but it is to provide integrated programme management across business capability, an integrated operating model and enabling solution. It oversees the customer work and asset management to support service capability development and IT infrastructure projects. Essentially, it is providing an overall management approach and discipline to those particular programmes. I cannot stress enough that the complexity of it, with 17 projects operating on a timeline of approximately 12 months, takes a lot of integrated management.

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