MediaLab Europe - Costly hi-tech scheme an utter failure

The acronym GUBU - grotesque, unprecedented, bizarre and unbelievable - springs readily to mind in the case of MediaLab Europe (MLE).

It was a saga which can only be described as yet another glaring example of taxpayer’s money being squandered under the unseeing eyes of this Government.

Given the PPARS debacle, involving an unbelievable waste of money on the Health Board’s botched personnel and payroll system, a jaundiced public was equally appalled at the blatant lack of accountability and transparency surrounding the much-vaunted MLE venture launched in a fanfare of publicity by Taoiseach Bertie Ahern in May 2000.