Marie Sherlock (Labour) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State for the reply. Let me be clear that my interest and that of others involved in campaigns over the year is not only in conservation and admiring a relic of the past but in having a living building for the present and the future. I hear what the Department is saying with regard to the possibility of a different economic analysis. To be frank, it feels a bit tortured that this has not happened up to now. However, if the door is open to analysing the use of the building on the basis of different criteria, namely those the Minister of State mentioned, including "societal change, reduction in crime [and] raising of confidence in the region", then let us do that. However, let us not have the Government sit back. It is in the gift of the Government to push through this economic analysis with the OPW and Dublin City Council.At a time when we have a Government saying it is committed to ending vacancy and dereliction, we cannot tolerate a hands-off approach. I welcome what the Minister of State said in the last part of his contribution but I urge the Department to urgently solve this matter.