Grace Boland (Dublin Fingal West, Fine Gael)

I thank the witnesses for attending. By way of background, I am a lawyer who has worked on many IT procurement projects. I read about the delivery or, rather, the non-delivery of this project and was astounded. It was very hard to follow. It looks like there were failures from the outset. There was no real substantiated business case and clear purpose or understanding of the milestones to be delivered. This included how to ensure payments were withheld or to make sure services were up to standard. I am very concerned if that is the standard of what is happening in our State bodies. My first questions are for the Secretary General. He has 19 bodies under his aegis. He has admitted that he failed to effect oversight here. We have recommendations from the C and AG and from the IPA. Is there anything else Mr. Ó Coigligh needs to tell us? Is there anything else we need to know? If there is that level of failure in the Arts Council, what else is out there?