Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)
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Question 637: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the response he has received from Dublin City Council to his request to protect and preserve 16 Moore Street, Dublin 1. [30474/05]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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I refer to the reply to Question No. 413 of 12 October 2005.

On 25 August 2005, I recommended to Dublin City Council, in accordance with section 53 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, that 16 Moore Street should be added to their record of protected structures, RPS, because of its historical and architectural interest. The Dublin city manager subsequently informed me that the council had retained architectural and historical consultants to prepare a report to determine the significance of the building in both architectural and historical terms. This report will be crucial to the process of the council deciding to include the building on its RPS. The council has received a draft report and hopes to bring the proposal to add the building to the RPS to the council in December 2005 or January 2006. In the interim the city council has arranged for emergency works to be carried out by the building's owner to secure the building temporarily and make it watertight while its future is being decided. I am anxious that the necessary studies be finalised as soon as possible by the council so that an informed decision can be made about the building.