Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 April 2015

Public Accounts Committee

Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project

10:00 am

Photo of Joe CostelloJoe Costello (Dublin Central, Labour)
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That should have been obvious. It does not require rocket science to realise that fundamental changes had taken place and a new letter of offer was required to ensure eligibility in terms of being able to draw down the funds. Instead of going south, the project was going west and north west. Essentially, it was a different project from the one for which the funds had initially been drawn down.