Has the Minister had regard to the standards of the commission based on an assessment of the urban renewal needs of the area? Would he make the criteria of such urban renewal available to the House? Urban renewal can mean a lot of things to different people. In order to maximise the benefits of this legislation it would be helpful to the House if the Minister would consider circulating, laying in the Library or coming back into the House on another occasion and setting out the criteria by which he or his successors might approach an area in terms of urban renewal?

(Dublin South-East): I regard that as a very constructive proposal. But I am sure the Deputy realises, being a qualified professional architect, that it is impossible, as I said in my reply, to distinguish in detail questions of urban renewal. I referred recently in the House to the very excellent exhibition that the Institute of Architects have in Merrion Square where this whole question was significantly displayed to great effect. I have encouraged my officials to go along to that exhibition as part of that exercise. Urban renewal is a long-range project and I could not give an assurance that what the Deputy suggests will be done very quickly but I would like to aim in that direction.

I am calling on Deputy Molloy. I would like to indicate to the House that the Chair will not have a discussion on urban renewal in toto. There are specific questions here and I ask the Deputies and the Minister of State to direct themselves to the information sought in the two questions. There are other questions on the Order Paper as well.