John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The clerk will set up a further date to deal with this. At our previous meeting with the Minister of State on an Estimate, I placed on record an issue in respect of Durrow Abbey in County Offaly. I am deeply disappointed that the matter has not been resolved and that a heritage site of value to the State, now leased to an arts for peace project, has been dealt with in such a way. I know there was mediation and letters were sent to and fro. I am aware the council in that county is interested. I appealed to the Minister of State and his officials before and it has come to naught. I intend to raise the matter again at the next meeting. If common sense had prevailed, we might have got to the end of it. In respect of the Estimate the Minister of State is looking for today, some of it might have been found in the accounts if he was to look at the cost of legal fees arising out of the Durrow Abbey case. I have no intention of letting it go. I have serious questions that I am going to put to the Minister of State, not today but the next time. I will submit my questions to him. I can assure him that in the interests of the State and taxpayers' money, I have no intention of allowing this go without some genuine and sincere effort on his side to resolve it.