Nessa Cosgrove (Labour) | Oireachtas source

The Alliance for Insurance Reform is trying to work with local authorities and public participation networks, PPNs, to have play areas taken under the various councils' public liability insurance. The issue of underused school facilities is huge. In the housing estate where I live there is a school right beside us that will be locked up for the whole summer. It has a full basketball court. The committee could look at how to change that. Schools are public property owned by the State and they should be used. The schools would agree. It is just about insurance. There should be something the committee could do on that.