Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 22 October 2024
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
2:30 pm
Mr. John Conlon:
I will be frank. I need to be careful of what I say here. We had this discussion the last time I was here on the commercial sensitivity of our position in relation to lands there. The Leas-Chathaoirleach opened her comments with a question on whether we are serious about it. My answer is that we are. We will continue to endeavour to try to reunite that estate insofar as we can, but we are dealing in a property market where there is another owner of adjacent property that we may deal with in time. I do not know. I am very conscious that our medium- and long-term objective is to reunite the lands and get access to lands insofar as we can. There are commercial and property issues that I need to be very careful in commenting on.