Rose Conway Walsh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The OPW can play a major role where there are empty buildings or buildings that are not being used. These buildings could be given to local communities, particularly now with the national rural development programme coming online. Funding can be secured to revitalise local communities and every effort should be made to do that. There are such projects in Mayo.

My final question relates to the public-private partnership contract on the convention centre in Dublin. This is on page ten, under heading B10. It will cost €25 million to service that PPP in the coming year. How much revenue does the State get directly from the convention centre? Are the costs of the PPP covered by this revenue?