Joe Costello (Dublin Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Has anyone been held responsible for it? Has the finger been pointed in a particular direction? Has anyone been asked to explain how taxpayers’ money was wilfully thrown around like confetti, particularly when it was obvious before the purchase took place that the property was unsustainable and could not be used for the purpose for which it was bought? The intention was – this was also the case with the next site – to spend a further €90.4 million on building new headquarters and a new racetrack. In the aftermath of the original decision which was incredibly negligible in nature, a great deal of good money could have been thrown after bad.