Ms Rosemary Collier:

The OPW has a long history of supporting the arts and culture sector in Ireland, in particular our national cultural institutions. In principle, it would support the idea of artist facilities. Collins Barracks is the home of the National Museum of Ireland and it has its ambitions and plans that we work on with it, in terms of what might happen there. At a high level, in principle the OPW has always been supportive of the arts and culture sector and we work with organisations like the Irish Architectural Archive, the Irish Traditional Music Archive and so on. We have worked with a lot of other clients, apart from cultural institutions. In principle, at a high level the OPW is open to those conversations, but the devil is in the detail.