John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am conscious that this is Deputy Costello's constituency and he knows a great deal more about this than I do having been involved in it for years. We are going to bring the Department in with regard to arts and heritage - it will be coming in with regard to the Aer Arann tender document - and surely we can ask the officials at the same meeting when we are going to raise Moore Street what their plans are. It is not clear to me what is going on here. Announcements were made late last year on the development of that battlefield site but they seem to have stalled slightly. It is clear that the people we met are not happy with things like the historic survey that was done on the site. There are other issues as well. Just because we deal with NAMA in this committee, that is not in itself a hook. We can ask about the amounts of money the State is planning to spend to redevelop the site in its entirety and whether or not that will be sufficient when it comes to the relatives. I do not know if we want to ask the relatives in. I think we will just deal with the Department and let it think about what it is going to say to us in the next month. That is enough time for it to put that together if it is coming into us. Can we ask the Department to deal with that when it comes in as well?