It was envisaged that the facility could be developed without the need for direct exchequer funding to cover capital costs. Photograph: Mark Stedman
The Office of Public Works (OPW) has been castigated by the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) for its role over more than 20 years in a yet-to-be-built children’s science museum, which may end up costing the State in excess of €70 million.
First proposed in the 1990s, the project led to the OPW reaching an agreement in 2003 with a registered charity, Irish Children’s Museum Limited (ICML), to build a “world class children’s science museum”.
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