Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 7 March 2019

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Further Revised)

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

That would be welcome. We have been in meetings with the Minister of State and council officials, but bringing the OPW and the council officials together is the best approach. A visit to Donegal by the Minister of State, with his officials, would be helpful to ensure any unforeseen problems are identified and overcome before they cause delays to the project. I also want to ask the Minister of State about information he supplied to the committee on Garda stations. Many have been closed. I am opposed to the closing of rural Garda stations, but I am not going into that policy now. I am concerned with the closed Garda station buildings and the use of those premises from the OPW's perspective. In respect of many of the buildings, I think it is 53, it has been stated that future use is on hold, pending the outcome of a Government review of closed Garda stations. Will the Minister of State update the committee on whether that review is complete? What is the current status?

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