John O'Donoghue (Kerry South, Fianna Fail)

The private sector has never been excluded from the Abbotstown development and it will not be under the legislation. It was agreed that it might be possible for a commercially minded organisation to go on site and, for example, make an offer that would be sufficiently attractive to construct an indoor arena. That may happen but I do not know because it is impossible to say. However, the possibility of transferring a site for a certain consideration to a commercial organisation is not excluded under the legislation and that would not be desirable. It is my preference that the authority should own and run the facility but I am not excluding the possibility of the private sector coming in. If that happens, it will be done in the judgment of the authority, having due regard to all the commercial factors and the need to develop the campus sensibly. However, what I envisage by "commercial" in this context is a commercial outlet that would be complementary to the campus and that is why I instanced a hotel.