Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Today I again bring up the issue of the Castletown estate, Celbridge, where there is a stand-off between the local people and the OPW. I make a special appeal to the senior Minister at that Department, who is taking the Order of Business today, to listen please to what the local people are saying. They have no reason at all to prolong any engagement that might be seen to benefit them. Every person I spoke to over the weekend was of the same opinion. They are at variance with the action that was taken by the OPW without any cause whatsoever. I ask the Minister to intercede with the OPW to restore the temporary access that was used for the past ten years from the N4 to the car park in Castletown House with a view to ensuring the present impasse be resolved.

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