Ms Rosemary Collier:

As regards the viable vehicular access, when we were writing that report, we were, of course, talking about the million visitors who arrive by vehicles, so it is for the visitor parking piece. Lime Avenue is a vehicular access route. The State bought that. That was the original vehicular access to Castletown House. From 1994 to 2007, it was the only vehicular access route, and it continues to be, in and of itself, a vehicular access route. I appreciate that a custom and practice have developed whereby that route has become pedestrianised. It is a lovely pedestrian route for people to access the house, so we do understand that that is the concern of the community, but that was the original vehicular access which was bought by the Office of Public Works when we bought the first 13 acres there. We have reunited 230 acres since. When we talked about viable vehicular access in the report, we were talking about that volume of visitor vehicular traffic. The access at Celbridge, we believe, would still be suitable for vehicular access for staff of the OPW in the same way as at our other sites, like St. Stephen's Green, Farmleigh and Kilkenny Castle.

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