Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 22 June 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4: Re-allocation of Voted Funding

9:30 am

Photo of Colm BurkeColm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)
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FAI officials have written to the Department saying that they are not going ahead with it but they still have a lease on the land. Has the Department had any communication with, say, the county council, to know what it is proposed will be done with this 30 acres? We have a problem now in that the city boundary was extended. The urban development has been within the city, not in the county. There is co-ordination between the two local authorities. Surely the Department now has a responsibility to communicate with them to see what is the best use that can be made of that 30 acres for the benefit of the community?