Malcolm Noonan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I would certainly take the Senator up on that invitation. It is an area of the city that is, as she said, hugely important not only historically but also culturally, given the new communities that are part of inner city Dublin now. It is critical to traders and everybody else involved to have that certainty. I can say with certainty from our perspective in respect of the national monument and the work on which we are engaging with the OPW that we will be in a position to move very soon on that. I cannot give a specific date but, certainly, that is our commitment and we are determined to see it through. The report of the Moore Street advisory group, of which the Senator was a part, presented to us by Dr. Tom Collins, was a very good one and it was universally accepted as the way forward. Further to that, Dublin City Council needs to move on its commitment to the wider regeneration of central Dublin, a hugely important area of the city. That would be critical for communities. We talk about town centres first. This is the town centre of Dublin and it has been left too long. We need to move on it.