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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Heritage Sites (11 Apr 2024)
Robert Troy: 12. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will support the establishment of a consultation forum for the future development of Columb Barracks, Mullingar by the Land Development Agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15700/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Heritage Sites (11 Apr 2024)
Robert Troy: This is a simple, straightforward question. Can the Minister of State give an update on when a consultation forum will be re-established for the development by the Land Development Agency, LDA, of Columb Barracks in Mullingar?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Heritage Sites (11 Apr 2024)
Robert Troy: I thank the Minister of State for the reply, but it is extremely disappointing, to be frank. The LDA was announced in 2018. As part of that announcement, Columb Barracks in Mullingar was on the initial list of sites to be developed. As the Minister of State has referenced himself, almost 100 houses could be provided there. On Tuesday, 29 September 2020, I, along with the then Minister...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Heritage Sites (11 Apr 2024)
Robert Troy: -----we are no wiser about the development of this iconic site in Mullingar.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Heritage Sites (11 Apr 2024)
Robert Troy: Frankly, we need something better and more concrete, so I can-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Heritage Sites (11 Apr 2024)
Robert Troy: -----go back to my constituents in relation to Columb Barracks in Mullingar.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Heritage Sites (11 Apr 2024)
Robert Troy: No.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Heritage Sites (11 Apr 2024)
Robert Troy: If other speakers stuck within their times, I would not be condensed.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Heritage Sites (11 Apr 2024)
Robert Troy: You could get co-operation from others.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Heritage Sites (11 Apr 2024)
Robert Troy: Once upon a time, in its heyday, this site housed 330 men. I always said that when the temporary protection applicants moved in there, we should have done up the old buildings and housed them there. We should have utilised the buildings, rather than putting modular units in the square. That did not happen, unfortunately. It did not happen because we did not have a plan in place, and...