Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 9 October 2012

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht

Decision-Making Processes: Discussion with An Bord Pleanála

3:00 pm

Mr. Gerard Egan:

In respect of the lease, the board is in a premises on 64 Marlborough Street, Dublin 1. It moved there in 2002. It is in a contractual situation with the landlord of the premises. That contractual situation also includes upward only rent review on the lease. We have been in discussions with the landlord over the past few years, in particular, given the market situation but the lease terms have not reduced from where they have been in recent years because the landlord has indicated to us that the contractual situation obliges us to maintain the lease at that rate. The landlord does not appear to be amenable to reducing the lease below that at this point in time.