Pádraig O'Sullivan (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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321. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on the use of a facility (details supplied) in County Cork; if he will liaise with the relevant local authority in order to hand the facility over for community use given that it is currently unused and derelict; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59441/22]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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I am informed by my officials that the majority of the site in question is not under the ownership of the Department of Defence, but rather that of a third-party with the Department retaining a holding on the site of approximately 1 Hectare of the overall 10 Hectare site. While no approach has been made by the Local authority in relation to a transfer, my Department has no objection in principle to dispose of its holding on the site for the purposes cited by the Deputy should such an approach be made.