Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State. Again I want to put on the record that I have been very glad to work closely along with Cavan County Council, with Brendan Jennings and John Donohoe, with the Cavan County Board, Kieran Callaghan and Martin Cahill, along with the Royal School in Cavan, Bishop Ferran Glenfield, Padraic Corley and Canon Lidwill. They are really working together to ensure that this is a real community project. We would have a huge range of new facilities catering for all sports. This includes quite a large number of playing pitches, hockey pitches, athletics tracks, all of that encompassing a strong sports complex. A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of attending Breffni Park for the Ulster rugby game against Glasgow Warriors. The Cavan County Board of the GAA is ensuring its facilities are available to other sports. That is the type of policy we need going forward, so that our sporting facilities of all sizes, the smaller stadia and the larger ones, cater for different sports and not just those of their parent discipline.

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