Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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155. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the costs incurred in 2016 and to date in 2017, the estimated costs expected to be incurred by the end of 2017 and the estimated expenditure to be incurred in 2018 in respect of the decision to re-open Stepaside Garda station; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43674/17]

Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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165. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the costs incurred by the Office of Public Works to date in 2017, the expected costs to be incurred in the remainder of 2017 and the estimated costs to be incurred in 2018 in respect of the reopening of Stepaside Garda station; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43675/17]

Kevin Moran (Longford-Westmeath, Independent)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 155 and 165 together.

Stepaside Garda Station is in the full ownership of the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland and it was closed on 14th March 2013 as part of the rationalisation programme of An Garda Síochána, as announced in the 2013 Policing Plan.

I am advised that the Commissioners appointed a company called Camelot to manage and maintain the property at Stepaside. This is a Guardianship arrangement that was put in place in 2014 and is widely used in the commercial property sector. All routine maintenance costs associated with this arrangement are borne by Camelot.

My officials have confirmed that no expenditure has been incurred in 2016 nor 2017 to date, in relation to the proposed reopening of Stepaside GS, nor have any costings been requested by or supplied to An Garda Síochána as yet, in relation to this proposal.