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Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: How many cases, approximately, are there per annum of people who had been made wards of courts where it is agreed that they be released? The Courts Service can send that information on to us.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: It happens through a jury trial. I thought that if there is medical assessment, the medical assessor might-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: We spoke about courthouses quite a bit. I understand the different schemes. Am I right in saying that the regional courthouse projects in Drogheda, Letterkenny, Limerick, Wexford, Mullingar and Waterford are up and running?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: Moving on to the next batch, Ms Denning mentioned further new or refurbished courthouses in regional cities and county towns where facilities remain substandard, including Galway city, Wicklow town, Portlaoise, Tralee and Roscommon. Regarding further potential locations, she mentioned Dungloe and Tuam. We will go through these one by one. Where are we with regard to Galway?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: Will these go individually or will they be a PPP?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: What about Wicklow town?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: How old is that extension?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: When Ms Denning said "new", I was wondering whether it was built ten years ago.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: That has quite a bit to travel if it has to go through planning.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: The building will require architectural and heritage reports and so on.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: What about Portlaoise?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: What does that mean?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: I know it well. The Courts Service agreed to purchase this site.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: What is the size of the site?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: The Courts Service has signed the contract and will be paying for that. Only after that, can it start talking about the design.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: The Courts Service has not yet done the design or planning work.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: Is the OPW doing that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: How quickly could the OPW progress that to planning application stage?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: So the Courts Service has preliminary design.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: We know that with the best will in the world, all that takes a couple of years and rightly so because it is a big project, there needs to be competitive tendering and builders must be appointed. The construction period could be a couple of years. What about Tralee and Roscommon?