Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

The Government is scattering civil servants all over the country, which will do immense damage to the long-term joined-up thinking we need in the Civil Service. This does not appear to be a consideration in terms of splitting up the Civil Service elsewhere.

Can the Minister indicate the estimated revenue that will be realised from the sale of the site? How can an agency like Enterprise Ireland, which by definition must be engaged in strategic long-term thinking, spend €6 million in taxpayers' money and then make a decision which goes in the opposite direction, namely, a decision to move to a new premises at a cost of €3 million per year when the State owned the original premises and there was no substantial cost? The key question is what revenue the Government expects to receive from the sale of this premises and how it can justify spending €6 million of public money which was effectively thrown out the window over the past six years.

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