Legal spending on botched Arts Council IT system almost double what was previously reported

Issues with the abandoned IT project first came to light in February

The committee recently received almost 60 pieces of correspondence, which showed that the Arts Council had alerted the department to concerns around the IT project as far back as 2021. Picture: Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie

Legal spending in relation to a €6.6m botched Arts Council IT project is now almost double the €60,000 figure previously provided, it has been revealed.

The department of culture’s secretary general, Fearghal Ó Coigligh, said his officials were "taken aback" when the Arts Council provided the updated spending figure last Friday, adding that they had asked the body to "correct the record".