To take a slightly different angle on this, it seems to me that, given that Classac was identified as a regional centre in an overall Comhaltas strategy that either:
(a) Comhaltas head office left the Classac Committee - part of a local Branch, to shoulder a large burden of responsibility of the project without providing the benefit of its expertise and assitance to the Branch in running the project or
(b) The project was being run jointly by the Branch and Head Office but HQ chose to distance itself from the actions of the Committee when things (in the HQ viewpoint) started to go pear shaped.

In either case HQ are culpable in the project going off the rails (to teh extent that it did) but the entire blame for this is being laid at the door of the Branch. HQ steps in as the white knight to resolve the situation and accuses the Classac committee of mismanaging the project. Somehting about this whole situation stinks!