Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I would put it slightly differently. Even in some of the examples the Commissioner has given, there is a massive black hole that will never be filled. It is almost like a self-creating, lucrative maintenance project for certain private outfitters.

He mentioned the rostering duty management system but he told the Policing Authority that was an off the shelf system. Accenture was not building it; it was just copying something that was there, yet we know it was given €100,000 in 2017 and €200,000 for what is an off-the-shelf package on which it did not do any work. How much will it be paid in total by the time it is finished? In the same vein, we can examine the amounts paid to Vantage Resources, which was paid €200,000 to €300,000 a month for PULSE maintenance. It is like they create this big unwieldy system and the fellows who create the mess then get paid hundreds of thousands of euro per month to maintain it, yet everybody knows it is a nightmare that has contributed to many of these problems with data management.