Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 26 April 2018
Public Accounts Committee
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 13 - Development of ICT Systems by the Department of Justice and Equality
Vote 24: Justice and Equality
9:00 am
Ms Oonagh McPhillips:
The governance group's remit was focused in its initial few years on new programmes, large developments and so forth. There was a governance process around them. The decision taken in respect of the Insolvency Service of Ireland, ISI, was to do it in-house, so it did not form part of a new contract. There was no procurement process, as it was done by developers attached to our IT division. That choice was made deliberately in order to achieve speed and avoid a lengthy procurement process like the one we are now going through with separate projects.