Departmental Property.

Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 25 March 2010

Thursday, 25 March 2010

Ceisteanna (237)

Ciaran Lynch

Ceist:

239 Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Science the number of properties her Department is currently leasing to commercial business along with the location of same; the number of these lease agreements that contain upward only rent review clauses; the income derived from these rents; the efforts that are being made by her Department to ensure that these rents are operating at a sustainable level in the current business and economic environment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13429/10]

Freagraí scríofa

Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Science (Deputy Mary Coughlan)

It is my Department's understanding that such practices do not generally occur on sites under Ministerial ownership. In any event, a central list is not maintained of such agreements. My Department is aware however of a long standing agreement whereby it approved by way of letter of 22 February 1991 the use of a classroom to be used by a Montessori School which operates in the original Scoil Iosagain Building, Greendale Road, Kilbarrack, Dublin 5. No rent is being charged in this case. It is the Department's intention to formalise the necessary legal agreements regarding this case in the coming months