As RTÉ recruits a new CFO, candidates will be faced with the reality that inflation has eroded much of the organisation’s dwindling revenue for the past two decades.
CDETB is the latest state-funded body after the Arts Council and RTÉ to release details of seven-figure problems with IT projects in the last year.
The majority of television watched in Ireland is imported, mostly from the UK. Public clamour for indigenous programming doesn’t match the private choices made in Irish homes.
The longstanding use of retrospective purchase orders raises questions around internal governance and value for money at the broadcaster and is currently under close watch by its audit and risk committee.
With a new schedule finally emerging from retirements and the ashes of the pay scandal, Montrose hasn’t been this exciting since the Public Accounts Committee hearings.
It is hard to fathom the breadth and complexity of questions raised by the prospect of Irish unity. A narrow focus on broadcasting illustrates the trip wires and land mines laid across identity, institutions and public finances.
Serious project delays meant the licence for the broadcaster's channel management system, which was to be replaced, had to be extended for three years. Details were not included in a report to its parent department.
Minutes of a recent senior management meeting point to “ongoing issues” to replace the two-decade old IT system. Internal records also detail what went wrong with the previously failed project to replace the same software.
The recent revelations that the Arts Council and RTÉ both wrote down millions on large IT projects suggests that the lessons of the past with other failed State-led technology projects have still not been learnt.
Records also reveal the full breakdown of the €3.6m write-down on payments to a host of contractors and details of a final settlement with BearingPoint.
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