Sinéad Gibney (Dublin Rathdown, Social Democrats)
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Thank you. I am going to leave it there, because I have a few more issues to delve into. Either Ms McGrath or Ms Kennelly made a point of questioning the appropriateness of expectations of small expert agencies leading on complex IT projects. It was also stated that one of the explanations for the project management failure was that the Council did not have and was unable to secure expert IT resources until the appointment of two IT directors in 2024. This narrative has omitted the period of engagement of its head of IT between 2021 and 2022 and the key, year long CIO appointment in 2023. Why are those key IT personnel omitted from the narrative surrounding the IT systems failure? Do they not satisfy at least some of the requirements for IT expertise? Should we not be putting greater weight on the wider approach to risk and due diligence within the organisation?