Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I can confirm that it is intended that a new district headquarters will be developed in Clonmel by means of a public private partnership. That is obviously linked to the site acquisition. The proposed new station will form part of a number of stations that are to be built by means of public private partnership. That includes new developments at Sligo and Macroom. We want a new regional headquarters in Sligo as well. I have been at some of the meetings myself because I brought the different groups from the OPW, the Garda and the Department of Justice and Equality together to discuss the building programme and to make sure that it now moves ahead in a timely way. We do want to deliver these new builds. I entirely take the point that Deputy McGrath is making in that there is a need for a new premises and there is only so much that refurbishment can do in the context of the facilities there at the moment.

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