It is becoming a story as old as time.  A public body has an aging IT system. It doesn’t have the internal expertise to replace it. It outsources the project to a private firm. The project encounters problems. Taxpayer money is wasted. It enters the news cycle.  In the last two years alone, there were scandals with the Arts Council, RTÉ, the Dublin City Education and Training Board, and the mother of them all – the €50 million at Irish Rail on a contract for a failed new train traffic management system.  One that did get some coverage but largely…

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