Mr. Charlie Murphy:

All of these groups are willing to get involved in a partnership basis but whatever the new entity is, it is needs to be resourced financially and to have that vision of social and economic regeneration. When the legislation was first introduced, everyone was taken aback by the idea of social regeneration being first. It even went against the alphabet. The social regeneration was there. Dublin Port Company is fully behind that type of concept and has a policy within its master plan, as Mr. Ward said, and its strategic plan. We review that strategic plan every five years. The master plan is a 30-year programme. We are willing to work with all bodies around it. The new entity needs to have some teeth and needs to be able to make decisions for the area. Let us ring-fence that area and pinpoint what it is. At the moment, we are being drawn to different places. It could be here today and somewhere else tomorrow.

People talk about an independent share. Who is that independent share and where does he or she come from? What is the relationship? There are many things to be looked at. We should look back at the master plan and the legislation that went through the DDDA at the time and not take all of it away. Perhaps some of it has to go but a lot of it was good.