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The Welsh government and its agencies were accused of being careless with the European grants that paid for the troubled National Botanic garden.

Members of the Welsh Assembly鈥檚 audit committee alleged that senior civil servants had not been sufficiently concerned about what happened to the 拢6.3m of European Regional Development Fund money that partly paid for the scheme. They also claimed that the quangos assumed the assembly would bail out the project.

The 拢43m garden in Carmarthenshire almost closed due to spiralling debts but was saved by extra funding from the Welsh Assembly and Carmarthenshire council.

The committee grilled Sir Jon Shortidge, the assembly鈥檚 permanent secretary, Gareth Hall, the Welsh Development Agency鈥檚 chief executive and Jonathan Jones the chief executive of the Wales Tourist Board on Thursday.

Conservative committee member Alun Cairns asked them: 鈥淒id you feel you had no responsibility because it was European money and you didn鈥檛 really care about it?鈥� He called the lack of diligence "breathtaking".

Sir Jon said: 鈥淚 was satisfied the money was spent according to the EU鈥檚 conditions.鈥�

A report published last month by Wales鈥� auditor general Jeremy Colman said that the Welsh funders could have done more to monitor the project鈥檚 risks and were mainly concerned with the fate of their money rather than all the funding behind the project.