Mr. Paul Maloney:

As I said to Deputy Gerald Nash, I had only worked on the Dublin scene and judged Dublin’s development by comparison to international cities. It was very valuable to me to see what had been done in Hamburg and San Sebastián. If one looks at Grand Canal Dock now and the Bord Gáis theatre designed by Daniel Libeskind, this is a location which will allow NAMA, as it told the committee, to get back its investments in the area. The docks are an international hub for Facebook and Google. Owing to these international trips, we were able to bring that design back.