Mary Upton (Dublin South Central, Labour)
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Question 111: To ask the Minister for Finance when the National Centre for Science and Discovery is expected to open; the estimated cost of this project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17676/08]

Martin Mansergh (Tipperary South, Fianna Fail)
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The National Centre for Science and Discovery, or Exploration Station, as it is known is currently scheduled to be housed in a building on the Heustongate development site in Kilmainham.

It is planned to bring the Heustongate development to the market and have the Exploration Station building provided to the State as part of the 'community gain' provision set out in the planning permission attached to the site.

As the development will be offered for development in a public tender process, the estimated cost figure for the Exploration Station building is commercially sensitive information and cannot be released at this time.

A definitive date for the opening of the facility cannot be given at this time as no decision has yet been made as to the exact date on which Heustongate will be offered to the market due to the current market uncertainties.