Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

We talk about the city centre task force, and these two properties arise in that regard.

I have some questions on the old Debtors' Prison on Halston Street and near Capel Street. Before the Minister of State took office, the OPW took housing activists to court to get a court order to evict them from the property. I am not speaking for the housing activists but the reason they were in the property is because it had lain vacant for decades. Even after the OPW took the housing activists to court, the property lay empty for more than ten years. Can any of the Minister of State's officials give him information on the old Debtors' Prison so that he can tell us how long the building has lain vacant?