Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Minister will be aware of the Forensic Science laboratory in the Phoenix Park, which is in his constituency. He will also be aware that this is the laboratory that carries out very important work on behalf of the State to analyse and process forensically evidence to be used in criminal prosecutions. The Government gave a commitment in October 2016 that a new forensic science laboratory would be built and that construction would commence in 2017. That did not happen. When will work on the construction of the new forensic science laboratory start?

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