Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Yes, it is: to deal with the plan that they have presented to them and the planning applications that go in for that, whether those take into account the existing laneways and existing streets or not. That is not a function of the Government. The Government purchased, with public money, the buildings involved. The Government wants, with public money, to do a really important, sensitive restoration of these buildings. Occupying them does not help that. I know that people have divided loyalties in the community down there about what should be done, but the State wants to fulfil its remit and its responsibility in a proper and fitting fashion.

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