Mr. John Conlon:

I thank the Deputy for his comments. I will make my own comments on the purchase of Castletown. It has been a significant achievement to realise that purchase. It has reunified the Castletown estate, which has been a long-term objective of the OPW. In recent commentary, people have sometimes lost sight of our long-term objective to reunite the estate. We have done that. We have invested considerable time and resources in achieving that in the last number of weeks.

We have plans that we can discuss later if the Deputy wishes on how we can move that estate forward. As with any other estate we have, community engagement is important for us, not just with a particular group but with all groups. In terms of my approach to community engagement, it has to involve all groups listening to each other and working with each other rather than fighting with each other. I am not saying that was the case with Castletown but there have been tensions, as the Deputy knows, which meant we had to close the estate. That is something we did not want to do. Looking forward, we will continue to work with all community groups in Celbridge. That is the best learning from this project. Hopefully we can all do that in a positive way and we commit to working with everybody.