Mr. Charlie Cleary:

As Ms Funke Tobun mentioned, I think approximately 60% of the GAA members in Tyrrelstown are foreign nationals of different nationalities, if not more. I look after the under-nines, the seniors and the juniors but when we go down for the under-nines on a Saturday morning, people of all different nationalities are out helping to put up posts, to get the pitch ready, to bring home the washing and so on. This has been building up over years with the under-nines, the under-12s and the over-12s. If an attempt is made to move them on or to try to sell their houses or whatever, the parents and those kids will leave and the community will be torn to shreds. When the parents go, their kids will go as well. I can go into more detail about the GAA if members wish. At present, the piece of land on which the GAA operates is part of NAMA. The community and the GAA got together and were obliged to fund-raise €24,000 to put into playing pitches for the kids, for the senior team and for a junior pitch. We did not really get funding from anyone but got together and worked together to put that in. They are all playing together on it now, which is brilliant but at the moment, they are threatening to put us off it.

It is not because I am here to mention pitches, but if we move off that one in the morning the GAA club will be gone. This is the only outdoor sports facility in Tyrrelstown. If it goes, the whole community will be torn to shreds again. The parents and kids will go. I cannot find words to describe how bad it will be.

Apart from that, there are other issues in Tyrrelstown. For the past two or three weeks, people have been coming to me about them. There are management companies in Tyrrelstown that are suing people in court for non-payment of fees. Those people cannot afford to pay the fees. There are 2,300 houses in Tyrrelstown, but how do management companies work there? How did they even get into Tyrrelstown? I would like to invite every member of the committee to meet us out there for an hour's walkabout to show them exactly what is happening in the area.

There is an access road to the school but no one owns it. No one is putting their hands up to say "I'm maintaining that road". All the people going to the community centre and the two schools us that road. If an accident happens there, who is liable from an insurance point of view? No one is maintaining the road. It is an eyesore for the parents and kids going to school. I do not know how long I have been bleating on about this. It was reported in the Evening Herald. I do not mean to go on because there are more important things, but what is happening to people in Cruise Park is unreal. It should not be happening. We should not be sitting here discussing it. There is no way it should be allowed. That is my opinion on the matter.