Joe Costello (Dublin Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

It was not a good decision; it was an atrocious one. Any right-thinking person would not decide to buy a site where problems relating to access had been identified prior to purchase. The site was bought and, of course, the issue of lack of access prevented development.

If the problem was identified in advance and if it was obvious that there was no access, is it not perverse that a decision to purchase the site for €1.75 million was proceeded with? What does the paper trail tell us?