Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am sorry, but my understanding is that the vendor's solicitor served a 28-day notice which, for some reason or other, expired on Christmas Day 2011. The State solicitor then advised around 22 December that it was ready, willing and able to close. Because the vendor's solicitors did not close before the end of the 28 days, it wrote to the vendor's solicitor on 29 December saying the contract no longer existed. That went on for six years.