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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cybersecurity Policy (22 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: This matter is developing very fast. Is there a need for the Garda and other State authorities to bring in people from outside? I am not saying necessarily from outside the Irish jurisdiction but from outside the Garda force to give assistance in providing the necessary support to assist the Garda in helping to deal with this area. I refer as well to investigations in this area, because it...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee. I wish to a focus on an issue that I brought to the attention of the Committee of Public Accounts and which relates to land at Brooklodge, Glanmire, leased by Cork County Council to the FAI. I want clarification. It is 30 acres of land that has been lying idle for more than ten years. My understanding from the briefing we received is...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: It was agreed as far back as 2011.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: The commitment has been there since 2011, which is over 12 years ago.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: The question is whether that €2 million was drawn down.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: The €2 million has not been drawn down.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: At the moment, the 30 acres is growing ragwort and daisies and nothing has happened with it.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: At the moment, there are no plans for those 30 acres.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Was there correspondence to the county council on the basis that there are terms in the lease of which the association is now technically in breach?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: I understand that communication with the council took place in September and not May of last year. Nothing at all happened for the six years after the association got the lease until September last year.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: This issue was highlighted in August. We have a growing area in Glanmire with a considerable young population who do not have access to sports facilities at a time when the association is sitting on 30 acres of land that is lying idle and growing daisies.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: The community is not patient. The community is concerned that there are young people who cannot get access to sports facilities in schools or sports clubs. I met 18 different sports clubs in the area, all of which are looking for facilities while the FAI is sitting on 30 acres.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: So the FAI at national level was giving no support to the local club at any stage over the last ten years.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: With support for local clubs, and remember that all the people in the local club are working on a voluntary basis, they have made more progress in the last two years than the FAI has in ten years in the area. They are all working on a voluntary basis yet the FAI has a whole professional organisation where there are highly paid people and there is a 30 acre site lying idle for over ten years....

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Has there been any engagement with any organisation outside the county council on progressing this matter because there are a number of different sports organisations in the area that would use this facility?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: That is six years after getting the lease. Even if we take it that the FAI got the lease in 2017, it was six years later that the association started looking at it.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: The local club is applying for planning permission on a totally different site because of what it was told. I met John Delaney down there some years ago and he told us quite clearly that the local club would not get the use of this facility. Therefore, it went off and got alternative land and there is a planning application in for it. That is on a completely different site.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: Would Mr. Courell not accept that FAI has land from a local authority from over ten years ago. Okay, Mr. Courell is saying the lease was only six years but it is still six years. The FAI has an obligation to work through, in a reasonably timely manner, when public land is made available for the development of sports facilities for young people in a particular area.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: On the basis that the FAI does not have funding and it is unlikely to have the appropriate funding to develop 30 acres within the next three to four years, would it not be an opportunity to sit down with other organisations to see how it can be worked out together? This is public money. This is public land that has been given to the FAI. The taxpayers own it, in real terms. It is not...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media
Sport Ireland: Financial Statements 2022
FAI: Matters relating to Governance and Funding (22 Feb 2024)

Colm Burke: My question is for Dr. May. In her statement, she said Sport Ireland is the statutory authority tasked with the development of sport in Ireland. It goes back to my question on the issue of Glanmire where there are growing urban areas and about the input of Sport Ireland and indeed the Department with local authorities in making sure there are adequate lands kept for the development of...