Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Dick Shakespeare was my manager in UCD when we won the Collingwood Cup in soccer. He has an interest in soccer and I am glad to hear that positive response in Dublin city. That needs to be generalised everywhere. There has also got to be a focus on clubs which have a particular community remit. It is not just about the high performance stuff, although that can be important, as we have seen with Monkstown Boxing Club, but also the community remit. Sometimes, it is about thinking outside the box in terms of supporting clubs in which sport is just one part of what they are trying to do at a community level. They are looking for both community and sport facilities, while trying to encompass women and men and so on in them. Sallynoggin Pearse is a particular example. I hope I have said that enough times for the Minister of State to hear it and for it to be passed up the line that it is looking for a particular type of facility.

The question of the control of facilities is often a point of argument between local authorities and clubs.

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