Aquatic Centre fiasco to be examined by Dáil committee

One of the most bitter, personalised and expensive corporate fiascoes in Irish sport will be picked apart in an Oireachtas hearing today.

The Dáil Public Accounts Committee will hear claims that the quango responsible for the National Aquatic Centre was told to withhold a devastatingly low valuation of the facility because it “did not suit” its purposes in a €10.2m legal battle.

Internal documents show it instead adopted a different and ultimately flawed accounting formula that suited its case better and produced an inflated estimate.