Maureen O'Sullivan (Dublin Central, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Minister seems to be adopting the Chartered Land ministerial order that was obtained under a planning application and which would also demolish the whole area around Nos. 14-17 Moore Street. It is important that what goes around the national monument is appropriate to it. I still do not understand why the Government had to buy back the national monument, which, as we know, was a derelict site.

Have there been any sanctions or fines for Chartered Land? It held Nos. 14-17 Moore Street for a number of years. Has it been fined for the way in which it allowed it to become so derelict? There were problems with the roof and the local authority had to step in at times. Chartered Land seems to have gotten away with anything it wanted to do there. It will demolish everything around it. It allowed a national monument to fall into disrepair and dereliction, yet there was no fine or sanction against it.

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