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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: This is my final question. I would just like to get to ask the question.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister of State asked me a question. I just gave him an answer.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Let me put this question to the Minister of State. This deals with the Estimates before us. How many gardaí who are assigned to the headquarters are now being accommodated in other centres? How many gardaí are in the Department of Social Protection Intreo office in Cabra? What is the cost for the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform?...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: It is too small.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: It is too small.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: How many gardaí are in it?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Not at all.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Is it more than 100 gardaí?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister of State is saying he does not want to give a number, but I am asking for a range.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: That is fine. Regarding the OPW, the purpose of this meeting is to deal with the Estimates and so we are dealing with numbers and the expenditure for the OPW buildings. It is not a sidewinder to ask the Minister of State for actual numbers. This is what this whole process is about. I understand if he does not have the number in front of him. That is okay. In relation to the OPW building,...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I presume that is a medium-term arrangement. It is not a short-term arrangement in that they are moving out of the Intreo building?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Is the Intreo office owned by the State?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: So it is owned by the State. The Minister of State mentioned Clyde House in the Phoenix Park. Is it envisaged that this building will be handed over to the Garda once works are completed?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: What is the future purpose of 52 St. Stephen's Green?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I know the Minister of State said he will give us further details, but it appears from the information and given the fact that Military Road is too small for Garda headquarters, that there are three other premises across the city that are either in the process of being refurbished to accommodate the Garda headquarters or are already occupied.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Is the Minister of State satisfied that the number of gardaí who cannot be accommodated in Military Road will be accommodated within the other three premises that are either under refurbishment or currently occupied?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: Has the Minister of State received any other requests for accommodation apart from the three that he mentioned?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: I mean requests from gardaí at a head-office level.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: If he has not, that is fine.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Pearse Doherty: As for the premises we just discussed - Clyde House; the Intreo office; and 52 St. Stephen's Green - I ask the Minister of State to provide a note to the committee on their purpose, their duration and their costs, if there are costs associated with them. To be clear, there are no requests to the OPW for adaptations to Military Road.