Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Tuesday, 1 Mar 1994

Vol. 439 No. 5

Written Answers. - Indoor Sports Stadium.

Donal Carey

Ceist:

34 Mr. Carey asked the Minister for Education to give a breakdown of the £8 million spent on the proposed national indoor sports stadium; if she considers the expenditure value for money; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

Gay Mitchell

Ceist:

41 Mr. G. Mitchell asked the Minister for Education to give a breakdown of the £8 million spent on the proposed national indoor sports stadium; if she considers the expenditure value for money; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

Michael Lowry

Ceist:

51 Mr. Lowry asked the Minister for Education to give a breakdown of the £8 million spent on the proposed national indoor sports stadium; if she considers the expenditure value for money; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

Phil Hogan

Ceist:

55 Mr. Hogan asked the Minister for Education to give a breakdown of the £8 million spent on the proposed national indoor sports stadium; if she considers the expenditure value for money; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

Jimmy Deenihan

Ceist:

61 Mr. Deenihan asked the Minister for Education to give a breakdown of the £8 million spent on the proposed national indoor sports stadium; if she considers the expenditure value for money; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

Michael Creed

Ceist:

67 Mr. Creed asked the Minister for Education to give a breakdown of the £8 million spent on the proposed national indoor sports stadium; if she considers the expenditure value for money; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

Minister for Education (Ms Bhreathnach)

I propose to take Questions Nos. 34, 41, 51, 55, 61 and 67 together.

The following is the breakdown of the expenditure on the National Sports Centre:

	£m
Site Acquisition	6.534
Management and Implementation Fees for CHDDA on site acquisition and preparation of proposals	1.326
Financial Viability Study	0.055
Total	7.915

The terms and conditions of each and every site acquisition recommended to my Department by the Custom House Docks Development Authority (CHDDA), as development agents for the project, were confirmed by the Valuation Office to be fair and reasonable before my Department sanctioned their purchase.

The scale and nature of the project as proposed necessitated detailed and complex preplanning by CHDDA in consultation with my Department and the level of fees paid is considered fair and reasonable and consistent with the extent of the preplanning work undertaken.

The payments in respect of CHDDA fees on site acquisition, site management and site security also reflect the lengthy and complex negotiations involved in the acquisition of title to all the individual properties on the site.

Judicial review proceedings have been instituted against the CHDDA by the owners of part of the site. It is anticipated that these proceedings will be heard by the High Court before the summer.

So as not to prejudice these proceedings I feel precluded from entering into any further discussion or making further comment on the matter at this time.