Ray D'Arcy

I know we've built roads and there's a brilliant, a lot of very good roads in this country, motorways.

Some parts of the country are still ill-served.

But anyway, I think it's a little bit embarrassing that when the eyes of the world are on us, we can get things done a lot more quicker and more efficiently than when they're not.

I think about...

the Children's Hospital, how long that's taking and how much it's costing.

And only last week they were saying that less than half the rooms are ready to move into.

That's embarrassing.

And I was drawn to this picture in yesterday's Irish Times.

It's a picture of a derelict site in Dublin.

And the reason I was drawn to it was because I walked past it a few weeks ago.

I was walking from Smithfield into the Jervis Street Centre along the Lewis line.

And this site is to the right.

And seemingly it's been there for 30 years.

It's a bit of an eyesore.

I was wondering, what is that?

It looks like a massive swimming pool that's been left run dry, but it's not.

And there were plans to build a family court there.

I don't know how long the plans have been in place.

But it's in the news because Dublin City Council are being taxed by the government under the RZLT, the Residential Zoned Land Tax Act.

because it's lying idle.