Michael Finneran (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fianna Fail)

I understand the point made by the Senator. In order to provide all possible information, I will give more information on the letter sent to Dublin City Council on the submission from it to my Department, which might be helpful. If contact on that level is insufficient, I have no problem with some direct link with Dublin City Council.

I should emphasise that we wrote to the council in December 2007. Our position at this time is that we await a response in that regard. If it gave a response, or if the response was that it had a difficulty in addressing the issues we raised, perhaps we could progress.