Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I do not want to be unsympathetic. I am very sympathetic to what the Senator is saying, as I have already outlined in the other House or at a joint committee meeting. I am very supportive of the great work which has been done by the Genealogical Society of Ireland. The trouble is that the harbour company is a commercial outfit and is obliged to run itself as such. It has, as I think anybody would accept, been generous in the past, albeit in a worthy cause, in providing rent-free accommodation to the Genealogical Society of Ireland. The county council's executive and the company are now using their good offices to try and find suitable accommodation for the society and I will encourage their efforts in that regard. I will not interfere with the day-to-day running of either the board or the company or Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. I will encourage them to give as much support as is possible within their commercial mandate following the Senator's representations to help the Genealogical Society in finding a new premises.