Mr. Ray Yeates:

I am not the slightest bit worried. I would go to 20 meetings and engage fully. I would work it through the system. I understand how it works. It is naive to think that in some way or other one can have this amazing quick win. Slowly but surely is how one builds something of long-term value. I would be concerned about having short-term wins which would have unintended consequences which one would then have to unravel at some other time. One must work patiently, well and in partnership. It is also time for us to talk about the fact that artists cannot afford housing and are fleeing Dublin city. We cannot choose them as a grouping. Why would we not choose nurses or security workers? How would they build co-ops to provide housing? How do we work in completely different ways? We also have to debate within the system what will happen in the short, medium and long term. That is what we do with my colleagues involved in planning. As Mr. O’Hara pointed out, new artist workspaces are embedded in every new city development. It was a three-year piece of work, but it will be a three to five-year piece of work that will yield the results people will want to see.