Mr. Joseph Nugent:

The head of estate management in An Garda Síochána has written to the Office of Public Works as part of the normal interaction with the office around the various stations. He wrote to ask the OPW to assess its view about the works that would be needed to bring the stations into service.

As was explained separately, when a station reopens it has to comply with current building standards. There needs to be an assessment to establish whether some of the stations will have difficulty and require large amounts of work. We do not know at the moment. That is the position.