Mr. Eoin Costello:

I echo what Mr. Blanchfield has said. I set up my company, Novara Technology, in North Earl Street in a very dilapidated old building that used to have a hairdresser on one floor, a bookie's on another floor and a dress alteration service on the top floor. We took it over and we gradually improved it floor by floor, and by the time I sold the company it was a fantastic facility. I remember years ago there was the Living Over the Shop incentive scheme. It would make great sense if the area from around the Digital Hub near NDRC down to the Docklands was earmarked as an area of incentives for over-the-shop use. It is scandalous how many units are left idle and boarded up around the city centre.