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

I thank the Minister of State for his reply. I again advocate for the regions with regard to large-scale projects. He is familiar with the project we are working on in County Cavan. It will be multi-sport and will cater for many sporting disciplines. As the Minister of State is well aware, there are no major sporting centres between counties Sligo and Dublin and Belfast and Galway. A centre in Cavan could cater for people from three provinces - Ulster, Connacht and Leinster. It would be an ideal place for competitions to be held and for people to access sport. I hope that the Minister of State will lay a particular emphasis on large-scale projects being multi-sport facilities catering for different sporting disciplines, such as the proposed project in Cavan, which would cater for a multitude of sports.

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