Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There is such a plan. There is a yearly programme. For example, the following accommodation projects at a cost of €37 million will progress during 2023 and 2024 providing 365 beds: Collins Barracks, a new accommodation block; the upgrade of the former USAC building in Renmore; the refurbishment of block 4, Haulbowline; the refurbishment of block 1, Collins Barracks; the refurbishment of Stephens' block C, Kilkenny; and Gormanston Camp, new accommodation block.

Since the infrastructure development plan, IDP, in January of 2020, the following accommodation projects at a cost of €22 million have been completed: the refurbishment of block H, McKee Barracks, 34 beds; the refurbishment of block 8, Haulbowline, 70 beds; the refurbishment of blocks B and D of Pearse Barracks, 48 beds; the refurbishment of Plunkett block 7, Defence Forces training centre, DFTC, 58 beds; blocks 1 and 2, Cathal Brugha Barracks refurbished, 80 beds; and refurbishment of the apprentice hostel, Casement Aerodrome, 75 beds.

There are approximately 77 vacant residential-type properties under the remit of my Department. Ten are in Cork, five in Dublin and 62 properties are in Kildare. None of them can be occupied without considerable refurbishment. They were built before building regulations, etc. I have asked that those would be renovated.

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