Here we go again. The floor of the £32 million Regional Performance Centre for Sport (RPC) at Caird Park is falling apart.

The venue is bedevilled by closures and postponements.

Just like the Olympia Centre was for years bedevilled by closures and postponements – and eventually needed multi-million-pound repairs.

Dundee City Council, did you not learn any lessons from that dog’s breakfast?

Did no one say: “Let’s never let that happen again?”

Clearly not, because the parallels are stark.

No one knows what’s wrong with the RPC floor, no one knows whose fault it is, no one knows who can fix it.

But everyone knows who suffers – the people of Dundee.

‘Where is leadership Dundee needs?’

And, councillors, it again appears the contracts were drawn up by a four-year-old.

Because any watertight, professionally drafted agreement should make it abundantly clear who fixes problems, after what length of time from opening, and who pays.

Did anyone ask those questions?

Was the procurement right on this job? Were local sub-contractors treated correctly?

Did everything in this build go as planned without questions or snags raised along the way?

The unredacted minutes of every meeting discussing the project, and every email, will be available for scrutiny – won’t they?

And where is the leadership the city needs now another embarrassing problem arises?

Council leader Mark Flynn, paid more than £40,000 a year, why haven’t you, as your job title suggests, strode to the fore?

Your declaration to “stand up for our incredible city and its people at every opportunity, without fear or favour” is increasingly comedic.

Can we get former leader John Alexander back to show Mr Flynn how to make a U-turn from “nothing to see here” to “I wanted an inquiry all along”, as he did with the Olympia?

Former council spokesperson for culture, sport and history Lynne Short – now depute convener of neighbourhoods, housing and communities – was present at the RPC turf-cutting ceremony but has had little to say since the problems emerged.

You can’t have it both ways, Lynne.

If you turn up to take credit you also have to turn up to take ownership of steps to remedy mistakes.

Judy Dobbie, managing director of Leisure & Culture Dundee, which runs the RPC – surely it’s part of your job to reassure the public, who pay your six-figure salary, that you are working tirelessly to sort out this disaster?

‘Badly run and horribly wasteful’

Look at the council’s recent record on infrastructure projects – the wrong roofs debacle, fire alarms scandal, the Olympia shambles, now the floor of the RPC looking like a half-finished jigsaw puzzle.

It is an ever-lengthening list of botch-ups.

The council, from top to bottom, is chaotically badly run and horribly wasteful.

At its head, I remind you, is Mr Gregory Colgan – paid almost £180,000 a year to ensure the efficient functioning of the machine.

The justification for a salary higher than the prime minister is that to get the top people you must match the top wages in the private sector.

We are paying top wages.

That this is the service we get in return is one of the great Dundee mysteries, alongside what Oor Wullie’s surname is, and whether Mary Ann ever found out why there was a mannie in her lobby.

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