Brian Hayes (Dublin South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 25: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the position with regard to the development of the proposed new national child detention facility for young offenders at Lusk, County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47162/08]

Barry Andrews (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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In March 2008, the Government approved the development of new national children detention facilities on the Oberstown campus near Lusk, Co. Dublin. Planning for the development is underway and a design team from the Office of Public Works has been assembled to advise on architectural, construction and engineering matters to deliver high quality designs and to manage the construction of modern, state of the art facilities.

The development will increase the accommodation capacity in the detention school service from 77 to 167 places and will be required to be carried out in phases to ensure that the existing facilities continue to operate and make detention places available to the Courts until the new accommodation is available. The timeframe for the construction of phase 1 which will provide 80 new build detention places is the end of 2012.

The cost involved for the project will be met from National Development Plan/Exchequer sources and adequate capital provision to progress this project has been made in the 2009 Estimates.