Sucking IT up - the black hole of Coalition failures

SEND for the consultants, the Government’s motto seems to be these days, when Bertie and Co should really be sending for Stephen Hawking.

Why? According to Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny, there’s “a black hole” in Government Buildings and it seems to be swallowing every major IT project that the Coalition dreams up - e-voting, PPARS and now, the National Health Services Portal. More of which anon.

Following all of those into the black hole is the taxpayers’ hard-earned money used to pay for them. Yet, not everything related to the projects is disappearing. For instance, the various speeches ministers gave touting these wonderful systems are inevitably archived on the internet and coming back to haunt them.