John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

We are looking at €1.5 million plus legal costs before a sod has been turned. I have information to hand suggesting that Irish Children's Museum Limited, ICML, which is centrally involved in this project, has had access to considerable State funding, grants, etc. to get to this point, from numerous Departments. The information I have is that it has received in and around €5 million at this stage through different Departments. This is not a question for the OPW but it is a cause for concern. More than €7 million has been drawn down and spent on this project without a sod being turned. There certainly are further questions for other Departments as to how funding was drawn down and via which funding stream.

That is certainly something that needs to be followed up separately.

Will this project be, or has it been, subject to a business case appraisal in accordance with the requirements of the public spending code? Has that been carried out, or are the officials saying that is for somebody else and not the OPW?