Arts Council 'Regrets' €6.7m IT Failure, PAC Hears

Minister objected to second term for Arts Council director amid fallout over botched IT project

Governing body taking legal action to try to recoup €4m, Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee told

Arts Council 'regrets' €6.7m IT failure, PAC hears

The Arts Council has said it "greatly regrets" spending €6.7 million on a complex IT project that was later abandoned, the Public Accounts Committee has heard.

Arts Council to hit back over its €6.7m IT failure

The Arts Council chair will criticise the Government for expecting ‘small specialised State bodies to carry the load on complex IT projects’ following tensions over a € 6.7 million failed software upgrade. Maura McGrath is also expected to tell the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that the Arts Council still requires a new system for processing grant applications and that failed efforts to update the current structure, which resulted in the loss …