Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick County, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is important to point out that we delivered Phoenix House, at the entrance to Parkgate Street, in the past two years. We delivered Military Road. We are in the process of the works for the forensic state laboratory, which is a hugely important infrastructure to be handed over to the State. We will also modify the building that it vacates.

I want to make it very clear to the committee; we work very well with the Garda Commissioner. His asks are being met by the OPW, notwithstanding the huge challenges that are faced due to inflation and other issues such as complicated sites in terms of archaeological and architectural conservation and all the rest of it. The State architects on our major project design teams within the OPW are delivering quite well, including in regional areas. I must mention that O'Connell Street Garda station is almost complete and Athlone Garda station will be finished this year. We hope the Garda Commissioner's list of priorities for the Garda station building programme for the next number of years will be published shortly and we will be able to get stuck into those as well.