Mr. Gerry Murphy:

The OPW is centrally involved in all our premises. When we were set up in December 2009, we subsumed the Dublin Transportation Office, which was located in an OPW-leased building in the Irish Life Centre. The OPW is seeking to exit that arrangement with that centre. We needed extra space because we took in staff from the Department and the Railway Procurement Agency. We approached the OPW and asked for some building in the State stock which the OPW either owned or rented and which was available. Harcourt Lane was available for us and we moved in. There is an OPW-held lease with the prime owner but we pay the OPW. Similarly, the OPW looked throughout the public sector to determine if it could find a public body to take our Fitzwilliam Square premises.