This coming Thursday morning, the newly formed Public Accounts Committee will hold its first flagship session of the 34th Dáil as the Arts Council comes before it. As there was when RTÉ officials came before it, PAC members will have serious questions about the €5.3 million wasted on the Arts Council’s abandoned IT project.  The amounts squandered are well in excess of the figures that came up amid challenging questions for RTÉ over the Tubridy payments, the bartering accounts, the Toy Show musical and the flip-flops.   The agency’s director, Maureen Kennelly, and the board chair, Maura McGrath, will be the…

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