Jimmy Deenihan (Kerry North, Fine Gael)
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Question 153: To ask the Minister for Finance when a contractor will be appointed and when work will commence on Castleisland Garda station, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7148/09]

Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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Castleisland Garda Station is on the priority list of the Garda Building Programme for 2009. Under the Capital Works Programme Framework, all public sector construction projects are required to be carried out under the new form of contract. It is necessary, therefore, to re-tender construction projects, such as Castleisland Garda Station, which had been tendered under the previous GDLA form of contract, but where no contractual commitment had been entered into. Accordingly, the tender documentation for Castleisland Garda Station is being revised to comply with the 'New Conditions of Contract for Public Works Contracts'. Invitation to tender will remain subject to the availability of funding and the priority afforded to the project by An Garda Síochána and the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform.