Northern Ireland Sports Minister Edwin Poots will face questions at Stormont today over plans to build a sports stadium at the former Maze prison.
The Democratic Unionist Party minister is appearing before his Assembly scrutiny committee to discuss the business case for a 38,500-seater facility for rugby, football and Gaelic games.
The study, compiled by PricewaterhouseCoopers, found that the Maze/Long Kesh site represented the best value for money when compared to a potential stadium in north Belfast or the refurbishment of the three sporting bodies' existing venues.
PWC has estimated that the stadium would cost £126 million (€167 million) to build and would need an additional £114 million investment to improve the transport infrastructure around the isolated site.
Mr Poots has insisted those figures were theoretical and stated he was confident the project could be delivered for much less.
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