At last weeks council meeting, I tabled a question to the City Manager on the possible routes that can be explored by Cork City Council in order to develop the Gus Healy Pool in Douglas.
Since I joined Cork City Council, it is an issue that arises continuously. The Government recently confirmed that there will be no new Local Authority Swimming Pool Programme in the immediate future. To develop a new pool in Douglas would cost a phenomenal amount of money, approximately €12million – much beyond the reach of Cork City Council. Last year, City Council spent in excess of €150,000 to replace the roof on the pool.
In his reply, the City Manager, outlined that Cork City Council secured a proposal for the provision of a new pool in Douglas by way of public private partnership a number of years ago. However, a majority of the members of Council did not wish to see any private sector involvement and accordingly the proposal was rejected by Council. If it is the wish of the Council to reconsider this approach, the matter can be revisited. It is unlikely that funding will be forthcoming from the Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism in the foreseeable future, for such projects.
So for the next council meeting have have submitted a motion which reads:
“That Cork City Council would seek expressions of interest from likely partners to redevelop the Gus Healy Swimming Pool”.
A report will prepared on this motion which will then be brought before full council in a number of weeks. Once I am in receipt of this I will make it available here.
I will continue to lobby for our pool to be redeveloped, but in the interim you can be assured that I will work to ensure that the pool is available, and I will push for more public hours – it is of huge concern to me that the public hours are limited to just one hour a day, between 1pm and 2pm.
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Posted in Ballinlough Ballintemple Blackrock Douglas Mahon by Cllr Laura McGonigle
At last weeks council meeting, I tabled a question to the City Manager on the possible routes that can be explored by Cork City Council in order to develop the Gus Healy Pool in Douglas.
