Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 28 May 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport

Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. Richard Waghorn:

Absolutely. We put in place additional systems in the last few years because PeopleSoft did not have the capability to do the workflows that we wanted to do. The intention was not to have multiple systems supporting HR and finance; it was to have a single system. This is very common in many industries. That is why we went to market to find one ERP system that could take care of both finance and HR. Through a fair and open public procurement process, we selected the vendor that was going to offer the best value for money. The system met our requirements. It was unfortunate that the project did not deliver, because we had the challenges on the way, as set out in the note. The PeopleSoft system is still working today. Unit4 Business World, the new finance system we contracted, is in place and working.