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

The Comptroller and Auditor General should investigate the circumstances of the sale. That is how serious I think this is. This is a piece of real estate that, if it were developed residentially, would probably be worth about €100 million. The Government cannot tell us how much it was sold for or confirm the reports that €7 million of debt was written off. That is not acceptable.

I told the Government a few weeks ago, and it was confirmed last week, that there were major problems in the places where films are actually being made - not in Ardmore Studios where they should be made but in the John Player factory, for example, which is a NAMA building. Four workers were sacked last week because they had protested about health and safety conditions in a derelict factory. That is not surprising, really. What are they doing making films in a derelict factory when there is a purpose-built studio down in Bray where they should be making them? Does the Minister not think it is all a bit strange?

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