Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 2 July 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach
Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works
2:00 am
Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats)
I thank the Minister of State for the reply. Can he understand the frustration of the local community that the Government he was part of back in 2019 announced this new Garda station, told the local community it would happen, there was agreement about the site, and then six years later we are getting responses indicating a site has yet to be identified? After announcing this new Garda station and telling everyone it would be built on Dublin City Council land at Northern Cross, how is it possible that six years later we are actually going backwards and the senior Minister and Minister of State are telling us they have to identify this site, which was identified six years ago?
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