Aquatic Centre - Nine years on, it’s time for answers

Today the Public Accounts Committee will be looking into one of the most expensive corporate fiascoes in the history of Irish sport.

It involves tens of millions of euro being wasted and a plethora of issues left hanging.

Questions are already being asked about how €43m was spent on developing a masterplan for a sports campus that has been substantially shelved. The whole thing could be equated with the e-voting machine disaster, but in this case the public did not even get the equivalent of the useless voting machines.