THE Queensland Health payroll appeared to be in danger of constant collapse long before the IBM contract debacle began in 2010, the Payroll Inquiry has heard.
The old system would actually stop working as up to 500 public servants scrambled to meet pay deadlines for up to 90,000 employees.
The inquiry, headed by former Supreme Court Judge Richard Chesterman, QC, is examining why IBM got the payroll contract in 2007, and whether those involved acted with propriety.
The payroll system imploded when it was contracted out to IBM in 2007 and rolled out in 2010, underpaying and overpaying employees in a financial debacle set to cost the Queensland tax payer $1.2 billion.
Damon Anthony Atzeni, who was the Queensland Health client representative inside the government-run IT outfit CorpTech in 2007, said the old system run by government with the aid of contractors would simply stop working.
"What was the result in terms of peoples' salaries?" asked Mr Chesterman.
"They (the workers) were able to run a back-up process and work very hard to get the data that was lost back into the system."
Between 400 and 500 staff were constantly working in the system, he said.
Mr Atzeni said he had grown concerned about government payroll systems after watching the payroll for the Housing Department develop serious complications.
"Housing was a very small and uncomplicated agency compared to Queensland Health," Mr Atzeni said in statement provided to the inquiry.
"Given the problems in Housing, I expected much greater problems for the same type of solution in Queensland Health."
The inquiry continues.
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