INCIS’s PAL

The Public Access to Legislation project has for some time looked like being a modern day INCIS. The project was announced in 2000, and six years on there is still no confirmed finish date. And of course costs have blown out by millions of dollars.

I attended a briefing on the project a few years ago and what they are trying to achieve is admirable. But it wasn’t that complicated that it should take seven years to do. It is hard to escape the conclusion that the job was either not properly scoped or not properly managed.