Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 17 June 2025
336. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation if he will outline the spending to date on the development, implementation and roll out of the financial management shared services system, by company, the timeline, the purpose and desired or completed output, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32680/25]
Amharc ar fhreagraThe table below provides details of the project payments up to the end of May 2025:
|
Supplier Name |
Pre-2021 €’000 |
2021 €’000 |
2022 €’000 |
2023 €’000 |
2024 €’000 |
2025 €’000 |
Total €’000 |
Purpose / Desired Outcome |
|
Accenture Consulting |
22,710 |
5,915 |
2,102 |
0 |
263 |
101 |
31,091 |
System Integrator – Wave 1; Initial hardware and software purchases |
|
EY |
3,725 |
6,463 |
2,392 |
1,621 |
3,287 |
977 |
18,465 |
Client Service Partner and Advisory Services |
|
Staff Costs |
10,518 |
2,068 |
902 |
670 |
1,560 |
725 |
16,443 |
NSSO staff involved in project work such as business readiness, migration, functional design, testing, training etc |
|
Deloitte |
6,204 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
6,204 |
Advisory services |
|
IBM |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
492 |
246 |
738 |
System Integrator |
|
OPW |
1,673 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1,674 |
Building fit-out |
|
Evros |
1,485 |
1 |
15 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1,501 |
Technical support |
|
Oracle |
935 |
322 |
3 |
1,680 |
481 |
0 |
3,421 |
Hardware upgrade and software maintenance |
|
CPL Solutions Ltd |
388 |
227 |
99 |
83 |
267 |
86 |
1,150 |
Technical support |
|
Next Generation Ltd |
644 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
644 |
Technical support |
|
Others |
4,102 |
176 |
163 |
206 |
28 |
1 |
4,676 |
Various project costs and overheads |
|
Gross Expenditure |
52,384 |
15,173 |
5,676 |
4,260 |
6,378 |
2,136 |
86,007 |
|
|
Receipts |
-53 |
-143 |
0 |
0 |
-8 |
-1 |
-205 |
EU Funding for eInvoicing and various staff-related receipts |
|
Net Expenditure |
52,331 |
15,030 |
5,676 |
4,260 |
6,370 |
2,135 |
85,802 |
|
The desired outputs from the project will be:
• the standardisation of accounting processes across central government;
• the modernisation of finance in government with end to end integrated financial controls;
• compliance with existing and emerging international reporting and transparency requirements and agility in responding to further changing international reporting requirements;
• a platform for compliance with EU directives in eProcurement;
• support for the professionalisation of finance teams across government; and
• enhanced and enriched financial data to enable data analytics.
