Paul Gogarty (Dublin Mid West, Independent)

I thank the Minister of State. In relation to the situation at Citywest, I thank him for his comments. I want to add that residents who may have been in fear because of some incidents of antisocial behaviour in the community by a very small minority of residents at the IPAS centre are now in fear of rioters. Property was damaged tonight. Implements were taken out of people's gardens and used as weapons against gardaí. I thank the Minister of State for sharing my condemnation.

On the response to this Topical Issue, I would like to see more from the Department in terms of multi-use design. Often, the size of the pitches provided is not sufficient in the context of community provision. We saw that in the Clonburris SDZ, where we trying to build up apartments in order to leave space for one full-size GAA pitch, one rugby pitch and two soccer pitches. There is a model in Adamstown, where a community building was provided separately as a sports hall for Adamstown Community College, which is then used as a sports hall by the community at night time. I would love to see more of that.

I note the response in relation to primary schools and how electric dryers would not be considered the most effective means of hand-drying because young children will not spend sufficient time at the unit to ensure the removal of bacteria. That makes logical sense and I thank the Department for that response. However, in second level schools there should be a better level of hygiene awareness among the students. Perhaps we need a more blended model. There could be the option of towels but from an efficiency point of view, dryers are a more cost-effective option in the longer term. I hope a review could examine this, especially at second level.

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