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Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Wednesday, 7 Jan 1959

Vol. 172 No. 1

Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Little Island (Cork) Gymnasium Hall.

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asked the Minister for Defence if he will state the reasons for the refusal of his Department to make the gymnasium hall at Rockgrove, Little Island, available for F.C.A. training and social functions in the district; if he is aware that the hall is at present being used as a depot for stores when there are some 30 to 40 empty military huts which could be used equally well for this purpose, and that there is no parish hall in the district; and if in the circumstances his Department will let or lease the hall either to any one of the various rural organisations in the parish or to the local F.C.A. Unit and thereby prevent it from becoming a derelict ruin.

It has not been possible to make the gymnasium, Rockgrove Camp, Little Island, County Cork, available for F.C.A. training and social functions in the district since 1956, because the building has been in use for storing tentage and ancillary equipment. Training facilities for the local F.C.A. Unit have been provided since that time in Rockgrove House, which is situated on the property. The majority of the huts in the camp are earmarked for the storage of other State-owned equipment, but, apart from that, I am advised that they would not be suitable, because of their low roofs, for the care and preservation of tentage.

While I appreciate that there is no parish hall in the district, I cannot make military premises available for use as such unless the exigencies of the public service permit.

The gymnasium is maintained in the normal way.

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