Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

They bought all their properties. The gardaí are not using all of Harcourt Street site so there is an argument to be made that if the OPW was only purchasing that part of it, it could have gotten it for less than the reported €70 million. The €70 million figure is out there in the public domain and it has not been disputed. It would cost €80 million for a new build and if that figure does not increase, it is absolutely mind-boggling that €36.5 million will be paid in rent over the next six years in addition to the rent we already paid to the Hibernia REIT. This is a State building. How could the State allow the sale of the nerve centre of An Garda Síochána to a vulture fund? It is unbelievable. It is like selling Leinster House. It is madness.