Mr. Derek Quinlan:

Well it was ... if ... I mean we started off, you know, when we went to The Square in Tallaght in 1990, it was a total accident. You know, this wasn't a great plan. I went to lunch, I won't mention his name, but somebody whom the committee would know very well in the world of finance, and he reminded me that my former partner was putting together a partnership, a very complicated structure to buy two or three shops up in The Square in Tallaght and he said to me, "You should do that as well."

And I went out the door after a nice lunch and I went to the first auctioneer I knew and I knocked on his door and I said, "I want to buy some shops in The Square in Tallaght." I knew the ... I knew Tallaght from back in the '60s when I used to cycle up there and there was nothing on The Square, and I knew it when the Connors family were the main occupants up there in the '80s.