Joe Costello (Dublin Central, Labour)

I welcome the Minister, Deputy Gormley, to the House and thank him for taking this motion on the Adjournment.

As he will be aware, last year he commissioned two reports relating to the operation of the Dublin Docklands Development Authority. At the time, there were serious concerns about its governance and about planning issues, and the Minister requested the new chairwoman of the authority, Professor Niamh Brennan, to compile two reports on these two areas. I understand those two reports have been on the Minister's desk for four or five months. The former Senator, Déirdre de Búrca, castigated him for not publishing the contents of the reports, stated that they were quite explosive and suggested that perhaps he was deliberately refraining from publishing them for that reason.

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