Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

We are talking about the IT system. When I first raised that matter the witnesses did not want me to talk about it. Given that the assistant commissioner is now admitting that there are serious problems with the IT system, is there any way to explain why we have been giving work to Accenture and Vantage Resources without even getting them to tender for it? Some of the contracts are being paid in advance. Some of them date back to 2009. Some people working for the companies supplying the IT services about which the assistant commissioner is complaining do not even have to clock in. It is costing a fortune. Accenture has been paid more than €90 million over these few years.