Mary Upton (Dublin South Central, Labour)

My understanding of this from the beginning was that the NAC should be self-financing and that that would happen in the short term rather than the long term. The NAC has cost €70 million in its construction and €1.8 million in 2007, and the Minister tells me now that it cost just over €1 million in 2008. I must defer to Deputy Mitchell for information that she had earlier which would suggest that €1.6 million was the figure required for 2008.

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