Remember that Public Accounts Committee Hearing into the Half Billion (I must be misprouncing the words Half Billion - no one seems to be taking any notice) cost overrun on the Ballymun Regeneration Project? Last week I posted that, with the exception of FF’s John Curran, the PAC had given Department officials an easy ride at the Leinster House hearing as regards where the money had gone and why the project was taking so long.

Since the hearings, John has been promoted to a Junior Ministerial position which means that his (and his alone serious) concerns about the situation will not make it into the Committee’s final report which is due in September. Apparently, there’s nobody around to take up the reigns form Deputy Curran: the unofficial word filtering back is that the Committee will let the whole thing slide. The half bill overrun is dead and buried.