Feasibility study for €11m aqua centre proposal

Galway City Tribune – City councillors have given approval to the Council’s Chief Executive to proceed with a consultancy report that’s needed to clear the first hurdle in their bid for the provision of an €11 million regional aqua centre at Cappagh Park.

A motion proposed by Cllr Donal Lyons and seconded by Cllr Niall McNelis – authorising Council Chief Executive Brendan McGrath to proceed with the consultant’s report on the project – was passed unanimously at this week’s meeting of the local authority.

Cllr Lyons said that there was a real urgency about commissioning the consultant’s report on the project – including a feasibility study and cost benefit analysis – in terms of the application for funding being made to the Large Scale Sports Infrastructural Fund.

City Council Chief Executive, Brendan McGrath, said that the Cappagh Park sports facility application was a very thorough and comprehensive one, but it had to be backed up with the consultant’s report.

He said that the cost to the City Council of providing this report was just under €88,000 plus VAT and the City Council would need to make a budgetary provision for that.
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