Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said that he would be “very happy” to see the Leinster House car park removed if alternative facilities were put in place for TDs and Senators.
However, he insisted to the Irish Mirror that the nature of a politician's job means that they “need a car”.
Green Party leader Eamon Ryan recently suggested that he believed the car park could be converted into a “green space at the centre of the city”.