Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

People on the board who were also working in Ardmore effectively gave themselves loans for a studio that now sits empty. The CEO of Ardmore prior to the sale attempted to rezone the land for residential development and will remain the CEO with the new purchaser and the Minister is telling us that Ardmore is secure for film production in the future when they have already tried to rezone it for residential development. Sure, Wicklow County Council blocked it but why did we sell to people who have shown a record of wanting to run the place down and possibly get it rezoned for residential development? The Minister cannot tell us about the €7 million owed to the State in loans that were given to Ardmore. It is extraordinary.

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