Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Question 618: To ask the Minister for Defence the position with respect to the disposal of Army lands at a location (details supplied) in County Cork to local organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29778/04]

Willie O'Dea (Limerick East, Fianna Fail)
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An area comprising more than 27 acres of the property in question is being handed over to Cork County Council for community use, including the provision of playing pitches. I understand that at meetings held in the County Hall, Cork, in January 2002, between my predecessor and representatives of local GAA and soccer clubs, it was agreed that the soccer club be allocated one pitch on the northern side of a mill race which traverses the barrack lands and a second pitch to the south of that mill race, while the GAA club would be given an area adjacent to the soccer pitch on the northern side. The formal allocation of the land in question to the clubs is a matter for Cork County Council and my Department is in the process of transferring title to the property to the council. In addition, an area of almost ten acres, currently held under licence by the GAA club, is to be sold to that club.