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- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021 - Sport Ireland and Sport Ireland Facilities DAC (15 Jun 2023)
Brian Stanley: The next big piece of work out there is, as I heard Dr. May say earlier, the velodrome and some other piece of infrastructure to be put in. What was that? Dr. May, you mentioned two things-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021 - Sport Ireland and Sport Ireland Facilities DAC (15 Jun 2023)
Brian Stanley: What is the estimated cost of the velodrome?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021 - Sport Ireland and Sport Ireland Facilities DAC (15 Jun 2023)
Brian Stanley: I know that. I do not want you to put the final price on it because, obviously, it will be going to tender, but is it €5 million, €100 million?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021 - Sport Ireland and Sport Ireland Facilities DAC (15 Jun 2023)
Brian Stanley: So it could be upwards of €50 million.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021 - Sport Ireland and Sport Ireland Facilities DAC (15 Jun 2023)
Brian Stanley: But the velodrome, the actual cycling track, will be at a different level.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021 - Sport Ireland and Sport Ireland Facilities DAC (15 Jun 2023)
Brian Stanley: How many people in the State are involved at this point? Is there an assessment as to who is interested in the activity of using a velodrome?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021 - Sport Ireland and Sport Ireland Facilities DAC (15 Jun 2023)
Brian Stanley: How many are there?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021 - Sport Ireland and Sport Ireland Facilities DAC (15 Jun 2023)
Brian Stanley: Dr. May, we may spend somewhere between €50 million and €100 million on providing this velodrome. I and some other public representatives were at a meeting yesterday with Ministers and we were looking for somewhere between €1.5 million and €2 million for a school hall in the whole southern half of the county that does not have one, and we know how many will use...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021 - Sport Ireland and Sport Ireland Facilities DAC (15 Jun 2023)
Brian Stanley: What is that based on?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021 - Sport Ireland and Sport Ireland Facilities DAC (15 Jun 2023)
Brian Stanley: At the moment we do not even know how many are interested.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021 - Sport Ireland and Sport Ireland Facilities DAC (15 Jun 2023)
Brian Stanley: But, Mr. Murray, how many high-performance cyclists are there in the State-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021 - Sport Ireland and Sport Ireland Facilities DAC (15 Jun 2023)
Brian Stanley: -----participating at competitive level?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021 - Sport Ireland and Sport Ireland Facilities DAC (15 Jun 2023)
Brian Stanley: I am all for cycling, by the way. I am not against cycling-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021 - Sport Ireland and Sport Ireland Facilities DAC (15 Jun 2023)
Brian Stanley: What I am trying to get to here is that there is a pot of money, a certain amount of money, for sport from the Department, and here we are going to build a velodrome. I actually had to check what a velodrome was, excuse my ignorance, before this meeting. I was not sure what a velodrome was. It struck me that we are going to enter into such a big capital project on the basis that there is a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021 - Sport Ireland and Sport Ireland Facilities DAC (15 Jun 2023)
Brian Stanley: Could I-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021 - Sport Ireland and Sport Ireland Facilities DAC (15 Jun 2023)
Brian Stanley: I do not know if Dr. May is familiar with the cycle track that runs across the Slieve Bloom Mountains from Laois to Offaly.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021 - Sport Ireland and Sport Ireland Facilities DAC (15 Jun 2023)
Brian Stanley: That track needs to be finished. Its completion is important. I have been a supporter of that cycle track. Without being too parochial, I will ask Dr. May about St. Fergal's College, Rathdowney. We met the Minister for Education yesterday about the school's need for a school hall. It was built as a vocational school in 1937. It covers the southern third of Laois and there is no indoor...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021 - Sport Ireland and Sport Ireland Facilities DAC (15 Jun 2023)
Brian Stanley: A wheelchair user will be coming to the school in the coming year. That person, who is involved in sport, will be excluded. There are children with disabilities in the school. The children who are using the ASD unit will need physical space but they do not have indoor space. The unit is 11 m wide. Its length has gone out of my head but I had written it down. Regardless, it is unsuitable...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021 - Sport Ireland and Sport Ireland Facilities DAC (15 Jun 2023)
Brian Stanley: I have mentioned schools, disabilities and minorities. I have mentioned two of the minorities who will be in the community soon. One group is already there and another group will be there soon. I can draw a line from Abbeyleix to Mountrath and the part of the county south of that line is without a sports hall. There is a need there. I am trying to be careful not to put our guests on the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021 - Sport Ireland and Sport Ireland Facilities DAC (15 Jun 2023)
Brian Stanley: The ETBs would be the title deed holders. They have in the past given long-term leases on pieces of land for sports facilities where there was collaboration. That will come down to the Laois and Offaly Education and Training Board, LOETB. That may be an option. Mr. Ó Lionáin is saying that openness is there. The Department might bear that in mind in the context of discussions...