Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 29 May 2025

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Financial Statements 2023: Arts Council
Financial Statements 2023: National Gallery
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 10 - Measuring the Performance of Arts and Sports Spending

2:00 am

Mr. Polycarp Anyanwu:

I have a developer background. When I joined the business transformation programme around November 2024, I wanted to take a good look. It is shocking when one takes a good look - there are thousands of lines of code, but there are no comments saying what the code is meant to do. A method will run into several lines. The method is doing several things. If we give this to a second person to have a look, he or she will not figure out what the code is doing. They abandoned it. They were supposed to do a low-code, no-code platform.