Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 28 September 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Courts and Courthouses: Discussion

Ms Angela Denning:

The goal of the review is to put a preventative maintenance programme in place. At the moment, all our maintenance is very reactive so we wait until the roof leaks before we go and fix it. We would like to prevent the roof from leaking in the beginning. Tralee was included in the review that was conducted. It was a team of engineers who looked at roofs, mechanics, electrical, water ingress, guttering and that type of thing. It was of the external fabric of buildings rather than the internal fabric. As the Deputy knows, the difficulty with Tralee is we need four courtrooms for Tralee and all the ancillary facilities we have spoken about today.

The OPW does not believe we can get that on the footprint. Mr. Ciaran O'Connor, the State architect, visited Tralee to look at the building. I do not know if he is a conservation architect, but I assume he is given his grade.

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