Martin Ferris (Kerry North, Sinn Fein)
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Question 697: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the ownership of the site on which the GPO stands; and if ground rent is being paid for that site. [6221/08]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)
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The site on which the GPO is built is owned by the State and comprises the GPO building and a number of adjoining commercial premises on which ground rent is charged and paid. In respect of the GPO building itself, there is a licence agreement in place, effective from 1st January 1984, which provides for occupancy of the tenant, An Post, for a term of fifty years. The licence provides also for a nominal annual rent of IR£1 which, to date, has not been collected.