Computerised payroll plan a 'Laurel and Hardy' fiasco

Millions of pounds were poured down the drain by a computerised payroll system for the Northern Ireland Civil service which never produced a single payslip, an official report said today.

Millions of pounds were poured down the drain by a computerised payroll system for the Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS) which never produced a single payslip, an official report said today.

Senior civil servants on the project board overseeing the development of the system were censured for not seeing how things were going wrong over nearly a decade.