Ms Rose McHugh:

Apparently, the requisite legislation which would have provided for the building to be transferred to the OPW and the collection to be transferred to the gallery, because we set up a new company when we became a cultural institution, was drawn up in 2007. However, the legal advice from the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General was that there was a flaw in the draft legislation. It provided that the building and contents to be transferred to the OPW. The perception was that this could mean that the collection was going there. It did not want it. Nobody wanted it but-----