Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I do not know whether the Minister is aware that there is an opportunity here for a national programme and it is not only the responsibility of the city council because this area will be impacted by the metro. The State owns not only Nos. 14 to 17 Moore Street but owns other properties in the area. Also, An Post has decamped from the GPO, which means that one could have, as envisaged, not only by me but by Deputy Darragh O'Brien in the past in the Seanad, a cultural quarter which would extend from the GPO - all the way - and covered that region of Moore Street where one would link in with other national cultural institutions in the area. That opportunity is still there. Once any building happens, one has lost what is, in my belief and the belief of judges in the past, a national monument. Once it is gone, it is not coming back. We still have as a State an opportunity to step in and preserve what is there, to build on it and to use it as a cultural quarter.

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