New Heuston Hall HQ will cost Department €7,000 a week

An ultra-modern new office is being provided at a cost of more than €7,000 per week for the staff of the Department of Agriculture at Limerick who are on the move.

But they will not be moving out the country as the farmers had urged, but are instead re-locating to a new building in an industrial estate at the edge of the city.

Heuston Hall at Raheen Industrial Estate is to become the new headquarters for the staff of the Department of Agriculture in the city who are vacating Munchin's House at Dock Road, which has been familiar to farmers in the region for many years.