[Article] Fraud, Kickbacks and corruption in CIE

[Park Royal]

Reading the Committee minutes.... from the answers the CIE people gave it appears the SAP system was not operating or applying to the Rail Maintenance Dept of IR when the "issues" arose.

While there was a lot going on in IR , new track ,new stations, new platforms new signalling, new carriages, new timetables, new management changes etc, new lifts....

It would appear at this remove the board of CIE and IR were negligent in not having all of IR...... SAP compliant.

SAP was in several sections of IR , Business Section , Rail Operating, Loco Maintenance ?, but not in track/Rail maintenance.

Why did the top managers and the Boards leave this situation lie for years, .......because that section was doing so much engineering over such along period perhaps?....indeed they are still into big projects.Malahide, Heuston approaches etc.

I suspect there are horses for courses and people good with shovels and picks may not be good with keypads and SAP. But top management are paid to sort these matters out?.