No one’s to blame ... but public will pay

The Aquatic Centre affair was marked by incompetence, writes Michael Clifford

BACK in the bubble days, Mary Harney proclaimed that we had money to burn. Yesterday, an Oireachtas committee published a report on the abandon with which some state bodies went about burning truckloads of it.

The report into the National Aquatic Centre’s Vat fiasco gathers many of the elements that contribute to the image of state bodies acting with arrogance and incompetence. It also highlights the total disregard shown for any citizen that gets caught up in the march down deadends where the primary focus is covering ass.