Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

On 14 June. I was going to say it would have been well over a month ago. The handling of Galway 2020 seems to have caused quite a degree of concern across various quarters and stakeholders. It is my understanding we saw a budget of some €25 million of taxpayers' money spent and many people in Galway are asking what they received in return. In the meantime, the project seems to have been run through a vehicle that seems to inhibit transparency or deny freedom of information requests despite the fact the project was entirely taxpayer funded. It is my understanding the promised private investment never arrived. Can I ask the secretariat what is the position regarding responses? That correspondence was issued on 14 June. Would the Comptroller and Auditor General be able to comment further on what he has seen of it to date? Some €25 million worth of public money has been spent and nobody seems to have got answers. People said they saw nothing other than a few branded coffee cups to show for it at the time. Has the Comptroller and Auditor General any further comment to make on it?