PAC: Departments must heed findings

Taxpayers’ money will continue to be wasted because government departments are not taking the recommendations of the Public Accounts Committee as seriously as they should, its chairman warned.

John McGuinness was speaking at the publication of a report by the committee which said the State agency, Campus Stadium Ireland, should never have pursued a costly legal battle.

The Dáil’s spending watchdog investigated the case waged between 2002 and 2010 against Kerry-based John Moriarty to pay a €10m Vat bill as part of a contract his company won to run the National Aquatic Centre.