Paschal Donohoe (Fine Gael)

I welcome the Minister of State. The matter I am raising falls under the responsibility of his Department and I know he is aware of the issue, which is the future of the O'Devaney Gardens regeneration project. This is one of the large-scale regeneration projects located across Dublin. It is in central Dublin and was one of the lead public-private partnership projects that suffered enormous damage because of the difficulties experienced by a number of high profile builders approximately six to nine months ago. As a result of the difficulty Dublin City Council, which is the lead authority for the area, needed to take the plan back to the drawing board and develop a new plan based on the reality of the state of the property market and the economy in general. It is now in the final stages of putting that new master plan together. I believe the Minister of State has visited the area. Even a brief visit reveals how desperately this community needs support and deserves a regeneration project to allow them to live in a safe and secure environment that can give them a decent quality of life. Some of the experiences people there have are appalling. The only way to turn it around for a good community full of decent people is through a regeneration project that gives them a decent standard of life and a decent place in which to live. I have raised the matter previously with the Minister of State and will not dwell on it much longer. Once this phase of the regeneration plan is completed and once the council and the community come up with a plan for the future which reflects the times in which we now find ourselves, will the Department have the money to fund it?