Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

On a different matter, Mr. Buckley will be aware that I have tabled many parliamentary questions on the children's science museum, which is of ongoing interest to me. The OPW has gone through not one, but two mediations in relation to this. For the information of the committee, this was something that was agreed - I do not know by whom or how - over a decade ago. It was put on ice because of the financial crash. It was then essentially forced back on the agenda by the museum board. The OPW resisted it with mediation. It went away for a second reason I cannot recall. Then it came back on a second mediation, which was, I believe, concluded last year in a way that, it seemed to me, the OPW did not want to be concluded; it has now been forced to progress with a museum that was somebody's idea in 2007. I appreciate that the OPW has been forced to do this through the mediation. Can Mr. Buckley give me a sense of the legal costs involved in 2021 in relation to this mediation or over the two mediations, and how have we ended up in a situation where it appears the OPW is being forced to progress a science museum in the concert hall that does not appear to be necessary because there is a perfectly good functional one out in Sandyford that hundreds of thousands of children have visited over the past number of years? Hundreds of different schools have travelled there via the M50 from all over Ireland to visit. Could Mr. Buckley explain this to me?