Dr. Seán McDermott:

The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform plan stated in 2012:

Moreover and crucially, the present accommodation for the FSL is inadequate and overcrowded.The present premises have no room for the extra dimension of the Laboratory's work which will be generated by the onset of the national DNA database. It is accepted by the Departments of Justice and Equality and PER that new purpose built premises are required for the FSL.