Ciarán Cannon (Galway East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is not a question of it feeling threatened. I am suggesting it should become the national children's science centre, bearing in mind it is already there and is visited by up to 250,000 children every year. With an investment of a fraction of the €70 million of taxpayers' money we are proposing to spend, which I still think is a very conservative estimate, it could and should become a world-class science centre that we as a nation can be proud of.