Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 11 May 2017
Select Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (Revised)
2:10 pm
Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
We are very conscious of the position regarding State money. The vast majority of the group relating to Moore Street is also conscious of this. One of the cost-effective ways of using some of the space we are looking to preserve involved putting in State agencies that are now in expensive rented properties. It is a win-win situation because if we have to put an agency somewhere, why not put it there? If we are going to make specifically it lárionad Gaeilge, one of the obvious anchor tenants was Foras na Gaeilge. I am glad to hear that there is some kind of lease break but I presume that if someone goes back after four or five years, and I accept it could take that long, I would love to see what the terms of the lease break are. It is a pity it is not in the name of the OPW or somebody because it could use it for some other body.
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