Ms Lisa Clifford:

As Ms Graham has said, following the announcements and the issuing of the initial approval letters with the local authorities last year, Mr. Logan and I and our teams have just come out of a long series of meetings with every local authority around their urban regeneration and development fund projects to ascertain where the projects are and where difficulties are arising.

With regard to the Dublin north inner city project, it is a hugely complex project and especially because it is made up of 15 different parts, all of which are moving at different speeds. We are working with Dublin City Council to see how best we can move forward the parts of the project that can move more quickly. The pieces such as the library, which the Senator referred to and is a longer-term project, are a bit more complex and will take that little bit longer to get through the various stages of the public spending code. The exercise we carried out with all of the local authorities was to critically look at the different elements of the projects to see where we can move things forward more quickly. This is certainly something we will be following up with Dublin City Council, in the context of its projects. From the Department's perspective, the Dublin north inner city project is one of our largest and we have a particular interest in making sure that these projects get on the right track, particularly the larger and more complex projects. Following on from our previous meetings, we will be following up with Dublin City Council to see what progress it has made on that.