Inifile/xml/json means making the SQL available to the end user - same with unencrypted SQLite, and SQLite is overkill anyway. I vaguely considered dumping a series of text files into a zip file, but again seems overkill.
I considered TMemo with one line per SQL, won't be a pretty solution though (I prefer my SQLs presented multi-line)
It's easy to implement a TComponent descendant that does what I want, I just didn't want to do spend the time if we we already had something similar in Lazarus CCR. Seeing as how other responses are around implementation detail rather than confirming if the wheel exists, I'll assume there isn't such a component.
Many thanks :-)