Alan Farrell (Dublin Fingal, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I can give Mr. Quinn an example. I lived in Balbriggan for a number of years and it is close to Gormanston. Balbriggan is an enlarging community and over the next generation it is likely to expand beyond the boundary of Dublin and encroach in the direction of Gormanston, so at that point it will become unlikely that the Defence Forces will continue to use it for its current purposes. That is the type of land bank I mean. To be fair, the area between Balbriggan and Gormanston might be a little too far, but I am sure there are other examples in the country, not known to me as a Dubliner, that might possibly be considered in the future as lands that are not being utilised to their full potential by the Defence Forces. That is the origin of the question.