Cabinet to greenlight €80m HQ for gardaí

Government is pressing ahead with construction of an €80m Garda headquarters. It is part of an ambitious, nationwide plan to build and refurbish Garda stations.

Hundreds of millions of euro are being pumped into specialists facilities and a raft of new Garda stations is being built this year, including a €30m station in Sligo town and a €7m station in Clonmel, Co Tipperary. Fitzgibbon St Station, in Dublin, is to be reopened at a cost of €8m, with asbestos already being removed.

But the Government is under pressure to build the new Garda headquarters (to house specialists divisions), before the lease on their current Harcourt Square complex expires.