Irish Rail to detail litany of failures behind €50m traffic system

The system was part of an overarching project to deliver a national train control centre at Dublin's Heuston Station

The failed IT system project would have been used to dictate the flow of train traffic across Ireland, and was initially forecast for delivery in 2024 at a cost of just under €20m. File picture

Irish Rail is to detail a litany of failures that led to the abandonment of a €50m traffic management system when senior officials appear before politicians on Wednesday.

The transport committee will hear that Irish Rail has gone back to the drawing board after the company tasked with delivering the IT system in 2019 had still not provided a fit-for-purpose solution earlier this year. This prompted the decision to pull the plug on the €50m project.