Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein)
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965. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the ceiling for capital investment in her Department for 2021, 2022 and 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15988/20]

Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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The ceiling for capital investment for the Justice Sector is €208m for 2021, and €216m in 2022. The allocations for 2023 have not yet been agreed with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.

Increased levels of public investment in the Justice Sector are a critical foundation of the National Development Plan 2018-2027. Notable areas of capital investment for the sector over the course of the plan include:

-Forensic Science Laboratory

- Garda Divisional Headquarters in Kevin Street and Galway

- Replacement of the Harcourt Square Complex

- Garda Station Building and Refurbishment Programme

- Garda ICT Programme

- New or refurbished courthouses in a number of provincial cities and county towns

- Redevelopment of Limerick Prison

- Development of Mountjoy Prison Campus

- Family Law and Children's Court Complex on Hammond Lane

The plan also recognises that increased population growth in the next ten years as envisaged under the National Planning Framework will create new demands in terms of the current accommodation stock across the sector including in relation to policing, prisons and courts.

My Department is also developing its analytical capability to be better placed to predict future trends including demographic changes and thus better inform both policy developments and budgetary requirements in the years ahead.