Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)

The general view of people in the Abbey Theatre comes back to what Deputy Mitchell said. The bottom line is that they want a new theatre with all the modern facilities, and they want it done. If it is to be done in the GPO I have had no huge objection expressed to me about. There is a rationale for it and the bottom line is that we should get on with it and build it because we have been talking about it for so long. All of the issues that arose in the past 12 months regarding the Dublin Docklands site were beginning to make it even more impossible. To be honest, I doubt if it ever would have happened at that location.

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