Joe O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I am identifying an immediate need and a long-term need. Building projects take time. If there is a site and the council is engaged with it, we are on for talking to them. We now have the community centre investment fund. It is oversubscribed, but there is an option. There are other options with possible smaller allocations.

One thing I will put out there when it comes to immediate need, and it is something I have worked on with the Minister for Education, is that we have a lot of schools beside Fair Hill, which the Deputy and I are familiar with, and while I do not know the extent to which they open their facilities in the evenings and at weekends, there have been revised guidelines through the Department of Education which are encouraging schools to open up to the wider community in the evenings and at weekends. There are facilities throughout the country lying idle because the board of the school or whatever does not want to go to the trouble-----

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