Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 238: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for the Garda station at Carbury, County Kildare; if he will improve, upgrade or refurbish the station for aesthetic or security purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9931/04]

Tom Parlon (Laois-Offaly, Progressive Democrats)
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I am advised by the Commissioners of Public Works that the Garda station at Carbury was vacated late in 2003 and the gardaí have been operating from a temporary portacabin on the site of the existing station since then. The proposal is to build a new basic unit garda station on a site at Derrinturn, approximately two miles from the existing station at Carbury and to facilitate this, arrangements for finalising a Part 9 planning consultation are under way. A decision on the future of the existing station will be deferred until after construction of the new basic unit and in the interim, there are no plans to improve, upgrade or refurbish the existing station for aesthetic or security concerns.