Outrage as PAC is denied access to MediaLab info

THE Public Accounts Committee (PAC) last night expressed outrage after being denied access to key documents which one member said could expose a “massive rip-off” of taxpayers’ cash pumped into the disastrous MediaLab venture.

Chairman of the PAC and former Fine Gael leader Michael Noonan said he was extremely concerned at the “unprecedented” situation.

The Government poured €35 million into the failed high technology scheme - a pet project of Taoiseach Bertie Ahern - before it went into voluntary liquidation in January.