Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 12 July 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 23: Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency: Financial Statements 2017

9:00 am

Mr. Conor O'Kelly:

That is fair enough. I will ask Mr. Black to respond in a moment. In the case of the NTMA, a treasury management system is a very significant and critical bit of infrastructure. The system we have in place works extremely well and has worked well for many years. We were looking at upgrading it and adopting a new system because of the changes in technology, for the most part, and in terms of interaction with the market. We specced out very carefully and we appointed the company. I am not sure if we can mention the name but we might get to that. Our difficulty was that what it promised to deliver and what we needed it to deliver did not transpire and, ultimately, despite lots of negotiations along the way where it was promising to do so, nothing happened. The company was a very well-known public company.

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