Pa Daly (Kerry, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The condition of courthouses in Kerry was recently criticised by the local judge. It has long been my view that the existing building in Tralee should be refurbished in accordance with the town centre first plan of this Government, the lack of a plan to do anything with the existing building and the need for extra help for Tralee town centre which, like a lot of places, suffers with a lot of vacant units. All along, the Courts Service has been saying that the court had to move because it was shoehorned into the current site. However, recently the Protestant Hall has come up for sale and now preparations are being made by An Post to move the distribution centre at the end of this year. Common sense is screaming at the Courts Service to refurbish the existing building with an imaginative approach. Will the Government discuss this with the Courts Service and An Post to make an extra site available? It is ten years, by the way, since the Kerry Group donated the Denny site with all the potential it would have for social housing, options for the community to gather and new jobs in the town centre. That is on hold since the Courts Service has not moved

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