Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 1 December 2015
Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport (Supplementary)
6:15 pm
Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
The Bertie bowl is well and truly gone. I take the Deputy's point. It highlights the need for us to now drive awareness of everything that is in Abbotstown. Many people are aware of the National Aquatic Centre, which I visited a couple of weeks ago. I saw the national diving championships, which were brilliant. On top of that, there is an incredible array of world-class facilities. It was called the Bertie bowl for a while, and then became the National Aquatic Centre. What is now there exceeds any of that. I recently appointed the new board of Sport Ireland. I told it one of the jobs I wanted it to do was to determine how it could increase the awareness and profile of everything that is there because it is a fantastic national facility.
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