Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 October 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs
Cybersecurity: Discussion (Resumed)
9:30 am
Mr. John O'Driscoll:
No, these are in Harcourt Square. In the budget, provision was made for a sum in the region of €80 million to build a new headquarters for all our national units. Those units based in Harcourt Square, which is where special crime operations is located, include the national bureau of criminal investigation, the national economic crime bureau, the national protective services bureau and the Criminal Assets Bureau. The Garda national drugs and organised crime bureau is in Dublin Castle. All of these developing bureaus will go to a new headquarters in approximately five years' time on a site which is being developed opposite Heuston Station where we will have state-of-the-art facilities. As I stated, in the capital end of the budget, provision was made for that project to go ahead.