A new integrated payroll and human resources system at Beaumont Hospital will cost close to €3 million more than originally projected while the project was never put out to tender, the Dáil Public Accounts Committee has heard. The committee was told on Thursday that initially it had been estimated that the new system would cost €1.9 million. He criticised hospital management for not alerting the Public Accounts Committee in advance about the issue before a scheduled hearing on Thursday. He said he had raised the issue internally with hospital management. Mr Hanlon said there had been “a significant overrun in cost”.
