A prevalent “culture of risk acceptance”, a lack of internal expertise, a poor procurement process, project under-resourcing and weak project management. This, internal records show, was the post-mortem delivered to the Arts Council board at a special meeting on June 13, 2024, on its failed IT revamp project, written off at a €5.3 million cost to the taxpayer.  At this stage, the writing was on the wall for the ambitious project, and the executive was looking for the go-ahead to scrap it and proceed with an off-the-shelf model just to upgrade the grant management system. While details of what went…

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