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Mon 11 Nov 2002Government to receive €100,000 per year for aquatic centre rentalThe Government will receive a rent of €100,000 per annum for five years, and 10 per cent of net profits thereafter, from its €62 million investment in the National Aquatic Centre at Abbotstown.The centre, originally intended as the first phase of Sports Campus Ireland on a 500-acre site in west Dublin, is to be run by Dublin Waterworld Ltd, whose principals operate the Aquadome in Tralee, Co Kerry.