Mr. Sean Blanchfield:

We are seeing the vacant office space above retail outlets in the city centre beginning to fill up with start-ups. The NDRC and the Digital Hub are 2 km one way and Silicon Docks is 2 km the other way and, in between, the start-ups are taking advantage of phenomenally low rents to work and live in city streets that one would normally see on the Dublin Monopoly board. We are on Dawson Street; I could not have done that in the past. Being in the city centre creates serendipitous opportunities in which one suddenly finds there is a start-up culture. If I go to the coffee shop on the corner of Molesworth Street and Dawson Street, I know I will bump into two or three other people running start-ups. The culture changes when one gets that density in one location. For me it is happening in city centre right now.