Bobby Aylward (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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203. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider granting an allocation of funding, through the Office of Public Works, from the sale of Inistioge Garda Síochána station in County Kilkenny to a community centre (details supplied) in the county, in line with the previous commitment given by this Government to ensure that such community projects benefit from the sale of public premises; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39118/15]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The former Garda Station at Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny was sold at a public auction on the 28^thJuly 2015 for the sum of €132,000. The proceeds of this sale, similar to receipts from the disposal of other surplus State properties, are treated in the Vote of the Office of Public Works as Appropriations-in-Aid and are paid directly into the Exchequer. It is neither possible nor appropriate for the Commissioners of Public Works to consider granting monies from the proceeds of the sale of the former Garda Station at Inistioge to individual community projects. Funding opportunities for such projects lies within other Government Votes etc.