Dáil debates
Tuesday, 28 March 2006
Defence Forces Property.
4:00 pm
Willie O'Dea (Limerick East, Fianna Fail)
The White Paper sets out a comprehensive programme for the development of defence and the Defence Forces for the period 2000 to 2010. This programme is expressed in terms of policy decisions taken and goals, objectives and plans to be achieved. These include a rebalancing of defence resource allocations achieved through payroll savings and the sales of properties, and the reinvestment of these resources in new equipment and improved infrastructure for the Army, the Naval Service and the Air Corps.
To achieve that objective, a barracks reinvestment programme was initiated by my Department to complement expenditure on the normal range of building and engineering works for the purpose of providing modern living, operational and training accommodation for the Defence Forces. This special programme was centred mainly on the Curragh Camp and on Collins Barracks, Cork. While the main elements of this programme were completed in 2004, a number of other projects have been and will continue to be undertaken. Details of the expenditure of €64 million on major capital projects, that is, projects costing over €1 million, undertaken in the Curragh between 2000 and 2005 are shown in the following table. There is one major capital project ongoing in the Curragh Camp and a further one is planned to commence later this year.
| Capital Building Projects costing over €1 million in the Curragh Camp from 2000 to 2005 | ||
| Project | Date contract placed | Project cost (€) |
| 2000 | ||
| New Pool and Gym Upgrade, Curragh Camp | 23 May 2000 | 8,006,065.54 |
| Accommodation Blocks A and B, Clarke Bks, Curragh Camp | 24 Aug 2000 | 1,596,773.18 |
| Stores 1, 2, 3 and 4, Curragh Camp | 1 Sep 2000 | 6,920,072.53 |
| New Transport Technical Stores, Curragh Camp | 31 Oct 2000 | 2,302,035.14 |
| Refurbishment of Ordnance Stores, Connolly and Plunkett Bks, Curragh Camp | 30 Nov 2000 | 3,706,873.35 |
| Accommodation Upgrade Connolly Bks, Curragh Camp | 6 Dec 2000 | 3,188,312.31 |
| Ordnance/Transport Schools, Curragh Camp | 6 Dec 2000 | 3,460,036.26 |
| 2001 | ||
| New NCO's Mess East, Curragh Camp | 11 Jan 2001 | 2,666,449.96 |
| Combat Support College, Curragh Camp | 23 Jan 2001 | 6,673,872.62 |
| NCO's Mess West, Curragh Camp | 31 Jan 2001 | 4,447,733.81 |
| Vehicle Garaging, Curragh Camp | 8 Aug 2001 | 4,628,978.36 |
| Refurbishment Kitchen Officers Mess — Ceannt Bks, Curragh Camp | 20 Sep 2001 | 1,082,000,12 |
| 2002 | ||
| Combined Vehicle Workshop, Curragh Camp | 2 Jan 2002 | 9,038,649.45 |
| Container Storage Yard, Curragh Camp | 9 Sep 2002 | 1,049,167.47 |
| 2003 | ||
| Special Storage Building, Curragh Camp | 18 Sep 2003 | 2,114,034.22 |
| 2004 | ||
| Workshop and Office Facilities, Plunkett Bks, Curragh Camp | 31 Aug 2004 | 1,749,941.65 |
| 2005 | ||
| Refurbishment Accommodation Block 7, Connolly Bks, Curragh Camp. | 18 Aug 2005 | 1,543,786.54 |
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