Mr. John Conlon:

We can follow up on this further. I will ask Ms Morrison to help with this response. Bishop’s Square is a seven-storey building in Dublin 2. We have leaseholder arrangements in place for five and a half floors of the property. These are under different leasehold agreements. We first required accommodation there more than 20 years ago to house the Revenue Commissioners, the Department of Justice and parts of the Department of Social Protection. In 2019, we entered into a lease for parts of the fourth, fifth and sixth floors of the building to accommodate the Department of Foreign Affairs. Since then, there have been some delays in finalising that and getting them in as tenants. This has primarily related to the Covid period, during which we were not able to accommodate work in the premises to fit it out. We also had significant landlord issues and landlord change during that period that we had to deal with. At the same time, we found ourselves having to deal with a significant Brexit project for which we had to prioritise other staff. Those are some of the reasons there has been a delay in getting the Department of Foreign Affairs into that building. It is now, I am aware, occupying the building but we had significant challenges in relation to the finalising the fit-out because of Covid, landlord issues and landlord change, as well as in the way in which our own internal challenges arose in trying to direct staff to a significant Brexit project and projects we had to do during that period.