The Attorney General, Mr Michael McDowell, today added weight to PDs leader Ms Mary Harney’s opposition to Fianna Fáil’s Campus Stadium plan, calling it a flawed project.
Speaking in Dublin, Mr McDowell, who is standing for the Progressive Democrats, said: "Campus Stadium is a potent symbol of all that has gone wrong in the past - and that will go wrong in the future - if the Irish people revert to politics of one party, one leader, one voice.
Mr McDowell said the plan to develop the campus at Abbotstown was "an issue of basic political morality".
He said there were more deserving and justifiable uses for the €1bn expenditure involved such as health care infrastructure, education facilities and local sports and recreation.
"In any event, there are serious flaws with the campus project," he said.
In outlining the problems, he said there was no case for a single sports campus, and that Dublin city centre already had two excellent at Croke Park and Lansdowne Road.
He suggested funding for improving at Croke Park and Lansdowne Road would be a fraction of the cost of the campus project. He also said the bid for 2008 European Championships did not justify the Abbotstown plan.
"The time has come for the people to point out that the emperor is not wearing fine new clothes - before we are given a display of the most expensive form of political stadium streaking in history," Mr McDowell said.