Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 15 September 2022
Committee on Public Petitions
Business of Joint Committee
Consideration of Public Petition on Saving the Services of the Owenacurra Centre in Cork: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Michael Fitzgerald:
There are two things. As the Chairman knows, it was not initially the intention to close the facility. It was the intention to look at it in the context of some refurbishment to be done. I took the decision to close it on the basis of the totality of the information.
It must also be looked at in the context of where we were with Covid and what we had learned around it. The decision was made by me but it certainly was based on the availability of the information, not just from a single source but from a perspective accounting for the capacity of the building, what we needed to do to it and what we needed to invest in it, as well as a serviced site.
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