Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 March 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Role and Functions: Forensic Science Ireland
2:30 pm
Dr. Sheila Willis:
Essentially the OPW is responsible for accommodation. However, one of the problems in the past was that we tend to fall between the cracks because we are an associated office of the Department of Justice and Equality, we are housed in Garda headquarters and we tend to be a somewhat independent unit. Perhaps there is a lack of clarity as to whose responsibility we are, but the OPW has responsibility for the building we are in and had taken responsibility for the new building. However, prior to that there was some dispute or discussion as to who should fund it.
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