DDDA spending culture criticised
08/03/2010 - 08:30:21The head of the Oireachtas Public Accounts Committee has described a travel bill of over €600,000 run up by the Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA) as an "orgy of spending".
Reports in todays newspapers claim the DDDA splashed the cash on luxury travel, expensive meals and fine wines.
The authority has accumulated losses of over €200m.
Fine Gael TD and PAC chairman Bernard Allen said such a culture of excess has to be curbed.
"I think these people were in a parallel universe," Deputy Allen said. "At the time they thought that the world was their oyster."
He said the bill raises major issues regarding the governance of the DDDA, which did not seem to be subject to any accountability.
