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:

I am aware of that information. No more than with any meeting, the view was out there. If we do some development, we have to look to see, when it comes to the value for money and what will be spent on something, whether it will continue and, if something else has to be done, whether the value of what was first invested in is lost. There was never any further movement on the sale of Owenacurra Centre. It was never tabled or even up for discussion as a decision. We did not even get it valued or anything of that nature. No more than with any other building, however, we would ask what its value is; whether we can replace it; whether we can refurbish it; and whether, if we were to build it somewhere else or to buy something somewhere else, it could present as a sale opportunity for us in the future in order that its value would be realised. That is as far as any question about it went. It was certainly discussed, but not in any serious way such that it moved on as a determined factor of our getting it valued or putting it forward through our own approval system, because we would have to get approval for that in the context of selling any type of building. It did not proceed any further than that.

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