€190m for forensic and garda services

Some €190m will be invested in the State Pathology Laboratory, three new Garda divisional headquarters, and a number of courthouses.

The State Pathology Lab is currently housed in portable buildings in a fire brigade training centre in Marino, Dublin.

Construction work had already commenced on new state-of-the-art facilities, only to be paused because of insufficient funding. Yesterday’s announcement will allow work to resume.