Professor ?ine Hyland:

No. It will have permanent exhibits, and we plan for it to provide support for teachers, with much extracurricular work. It is tied into the curriculum in one way and would expand the curriculum for schools that do not have the resources and may not have suitable laboratories. It would be an opportunity for children or young people who are being home-schooled. Various children's science centres internationally provide much online support too. It is ambitious. It does not pretend not to be ambitious. The amount of money that is being raised and was originally pledged to the museum when it was to have been located at Heuston Gate was €10 million. We are talking big money. It is a large centre, at 10,000 sq. m. We have the support of the OPW and its architects. The OPW is providing the building. In due course, we hope that the Government will come in behind it.