Failed €40m e-project - Yet another big waste of public funds

IN A long line of government white elephants, tens of millions of euro in taxpayers’ money have once again been shamefully squandered.

This time, the waste involves the coalition’s much-vaunted project to provide a one-stop-shop website to make it easier for the public to access information about government services.

Having cost the taxpayers a huge €40 million so far, the scheme is in the process of being scrapped. Instead of streamlining communications for the public, as the ambitious “e-Government” project was supposed to do, www.reachservices.ie has turned out to be an extremely costly online misadventure.