Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

The organisation to follow up with on the receipt of the property and accounting for the transfer of the property is the Department of Education and Skills. Properties are being handed over to a range of bodies, but it is the Department that should be co-ordinating it and who should be accounting for it.

With regard to the rent, my reading of the letter from the chairman of the OPW is there has been no change of policy. My understanding of what he has said is Caranua was accommodated for a period in accommodation that was assigned to the Department of Education and Skills, and because it was a Department the OPW was effectively paying the rent, and there is a rent payable for the property, but it was not passing on the charge to the Department of Education and Skills. It had a provision of funding for this, and when the lease came to an end the funding had run out and, therefore, it asked Caranua to pay the rent to it, which it had paid on to the landlord.