I thank the Ceann Comhairle. The Taoiseach will be familiar with the Baggot Street hospital. It is an iconic building in the middle of Baggot Street that, scandalously, has been left vacant for a number of years by the HSE. The HSE told us and local residents that it had been placed on the OPW disposal register, which, as it was explained to me, means every Government Department and State body would be offered an opportunity to put that building into reuse. TheJournal.ie reported yesterday that the Department of housing said it has never been offered use of this building. Now the HSE has put it on the open market. I and residents across the area want to see this being put into an active use, but they will be horrified and scandalised if it is the case the Department of housing never explored whether it could be put to use for housing. We need absolute clarity and certainty on that because this has gone on for some time. There is an opportunity to redevelop the front part of that hospital and put it into active use. We just need clarity on that from the Minister for housing.

That hospital has been closed for a long time. It may not be easily available for housing, or amenable, given the investment that would be required and the historical nature of the building. Aspects of it are probably listed. I do not know that but I presume so. Every Department, therefore, has to look at it from a value-for-money perspective. It is in a prime location and it would seem to me that it needs to be reused, but whether that is private sector-driven reuse or not, I would be open, given its location. There is an architectural heritage dimension to it, I imagine, as well as a purely utilitarian perspective in terms of what the building gets used for. Again, I recall at the height of the emergency in respect of-----

Thank you, Taoiseach. Deputy Cullinane.

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The Taoiseach might just follow up with the Minister for housing to clarify where we are at.

Deputy, you will have to write to the Taoiseach. Deputy Cullinane.

It is not just the Minister for housing. It is the Minister for Health and the HSE as well. They are all involved. Come on.

It was the Department of housing that said it had never been offered it. It is just to get clarity on that point.

Deputy, you can send an email. Deputy Cullinane.