The Irish Times

Green Party councillor, Mr Ciarán Cuffe, also an architect told the Bord Pleanála oral hearing yesterday that the national conference centre proposed for Spencer Dock is a Trojan Horse for the "sad and impoverished" plans for the rest the site. He said Dublin deserved a national conference centre but he had "grave concerns" about the height and bulk of the remainder of the proposed residential and commercial scheme. "Its massively bulky development, proposed within a residential low-rise neighbourhood, is too high a price to pay for Dublin" .