Paul Gogarty (Dublin Mid West, Green Party)
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Question 714: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her plans to make the sports facilities at a school (details supplied) in Dublin 20 available to the community. [28041/06]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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My Department has provided nine dual use halls with enhanced facilities, attached to post-primary schools. Eight of the halls, including the hall referred to by the Deputy, are in Dublin and one is in Cork.

The halls in question have been built as part of a joint programme to develop community sports facilities in drugs task force areas. At present, issues relating to the funding, management and staffing of the halls to facilitate community usage are being considered by my Department with a view to making the facilities more widely available. My Department will be in contact with the individual school authorities as soon as these issues have been resolved.