TD urges State to finish Waterford sports campus

A Waterford TD believes there is a need for the State to step in to facilitate the completion of a multimillion-euro sports complex which stalled, mid-construction, over three years ago.

Fine Gael’s John Deasy said officials at Waterford Institute of Technology are due to appear before the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee next month which will seek an explanation as to why construction on the €9m Carriganore Sports Campus came to a halt in 2012.

A report by Eugene McKenna, the former CEO of Diverse Campus Services — the company tasked with delivering the facility — has laid the blame for the delay with a failed attempt to consolidate the company as a subsidiary of WIT during the project’s construction.