Il progetto informatico per consentire l’utilizzo delle carte bancarie sui trasporti pubblici supererà il budget di 41 milioni di euro
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/05/14/key-it-projects-at-government-departments-and-state-agencies-set-to-run-61m-over-budget/
di homecinemad
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Well, I, for one, am shocked!
Shocked, I tell you!
This is just getting ridiculous… and how many years of delay we can expect?
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Do we have a list of any peps connected to the companies contracted?
My understanding at one stage was that part of the delay to an upgrade of the ticketing system was related to the need to have more of the National Fares Strategy introduced. But like everything that relates to public transport, there are some political difficulties so that’s been painfully slow. The Fares strategy is supposed to even out some of the quirks of the existing rather ad hoc fares system and make a national system more sensible (and indeed, viable).
But at the same time, they managed a lot of the Dublin stuff (the new commuter fare zones and the harmonisation that required) but the NTA seem very disinterested in the non-Dublin stuff.
(Edit: To be clear this is a moan about the delays to implementing the national fares strategy and the disinterest of the NTA in non-Dublin issues, rather than a suggestion that the National Fares Strategy delays is the cause of the cost overrun or other delays to contactless ticketing)
Dozens of countries are running contactless payments without issue.
As ever we need to make ours bespoke and overlay complicated for some reason.
It rained today but the sun came out after
Incompetence is allowed by not having accountability.
Genuinely do they pose solutions or look for corrective measures to stop this happening in the future? Or do we just leave it to each public body to make the same mistake over and over?
I feel like this will be a recurring issue for years. Private sector are more than happy to string projects along too and involve more consultations.
I can understand how building projects and developments run over budget due to external factors and costs and delays and timing etc. These IT projects are such a black hole for money when in reality it should be possible to map out most of it and get approximate costings, you’ll always run into issues but I don’t know those issues end up costing double of their budget.
I feel like the public sector needs an IT hub or something, pay proper wages and at least be able to advise government agencies when working with third parties or call out bullshit in the tender process. Also have these contract actually punish delays and budget overruns.
I should have done a polymarket on this outcome
Would never have guessed..
We could build a nice little bike shed for that. What a waste
15% over budget for anyone that read past the headline. Yea that sucks but my groceries have definitely gone up much more than 15% in the past 2 years. How long were the projects. What was the Cola set to be for the contract anyways. Are the overtuns because the tender was done poorly and didn’t predict increases in spending. Were things underpriced, was the tender process skewed too heavily towards cost rather than I dunno, being able to show they did the work before in the EU
Get it done FFS. Was in Spain’s 6th largest city the other day. It had a metro, bus, train from the airport and tap on with bank card. Alicante had it over 10 years ago. Tech centre of the EU my ass
Imagine if Ireland had to actually work for its wealth instead of extracting it from taxes not paid elsewhere, maybe then people would care
The temptation to set up a company that purely goes after and abuses public contracts grows by the day. You’d be a millionaire by Christmas and there’s zero chance of you ever being investigated or punished as the government will actively defend you.
Don’t worry guys by the time this goes through it will have doubled due to inflation.
Who is doing budget review? Just tell whoever submitted the bid though shit
Yeah alright , just make it happen. Ffs
From the article: “overall spending was roughly in line with initial projections as underspending on some projects has offset overruns on others.” – that won’t generate the necessary headlines and misguided outrage of course.
If only we ran an inappropriate surplus each year, which could absorb this excess cost in delivering critical infrastructure!!!
We need all of these overruns to have some kind of investigation
How is this so difficult to implement? I don’t understand. Dozens of countries have already implemented this.
Why do they over complicate this? I’m living in Germany and you buy the ticket in the providers app (or on the platform), and that’s it. No faffing about with scanners, machines and delaying people getting on. The tickets is not valid until a few mins after your purchase in the app, so you can’t just quickly buy a ticket if you see the inspector approaching.
How?
Lads, quick question, how can I start a company to fulfil government contracts?
Can they not use their leap cards?
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