Clare Daly (Dublin North, United Left) | Oireachtas source

The Minister's response is wholly inadequate. He has just rehashed information that has been given in this House many times and did not deal with the question. Events have moved on since the mantra that the Minister read out to us previously and there have been developments on the ground. Deputy Wallace and I met the property management section at the Curragh Camp a number of months ago. The residents also met representatives this week. The Minister has not addressed the fact that, in the intervening period, the Department of Defence has seen fit to issue eviction notices to a number of other people, which goes completely against what the Minister, Deputy Shatter, said previously. He said that nobody would be rendered homeless on the basis of the manner in which the Department dealt with those issues. He acknowledged that there were a number of elderly and vulnerable citizens there. The Minister's actions contradict that.

The group which met the Department on Friday put forward the suggestion that O'Higgins Terrace might be renovated. That is an order which could be handed over to the county council because of where the terrace is situated in the camp. There was a suggestion that this would be given active consideration. Can the Minister confirm that is the case and that he will, as he said he wanted to, withdraw from legal proceedings in the meantime?

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