Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 26 November 2025
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation (Supplementary)
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Supplementary)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Supplementary)
2:00 am
Edward Timmins (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
My last two questions concern matters in my constituency, Wicklow. The first relates to responsibility for overseeing courthouses. There is a courthouse in Wicklow town that has been lying derelict since 2010. It is next door to Wicklow Gaol, the major tourist attraction in the town. Could the Minister of State put on his radar refurbishing the building and bringing it back into use either as a court, for which it has not been used in over 16 years, or as a public amenity? It is right in the middle of Wicklow town. I ask the Minister of State to consider this.
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