Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The property has lain vacant for more than 30 years. Surely to God somebody in the OPW, instead of building bike sheds out the front, might look at a property there that could be regenerated into housing or something commercially sound. The only action that seems to have taken place is the taking of housing activists to court a decade ago to evict them. However, I appreciate that did not happen in the time of the Minister of State.

The OPW owns and manages property around O'Connell Street and some of the surrounding streets that have huge historical and cultural significance. Will anybody in the OPW or the Minister of State explain why the 1916 commemorative centre at the national museum on Moore Street did not open in 2016? It was promised, so why has it still not opened? When will it open? Is this another instance like the old Debtors' Prison where many decades roll by but nothing happens?