GRA officer claims An Garda Síochána's new operations base is 'not fit for purpose'

The newly opened Walter Scott House on Military Road, Dublin, was recently completed on time and within its €86.6m budget, with all gardaí having vacated Harcourt Square as of 10 days ago. Picture: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin

A Garda union officer working out of the force’s new operations base at Military Road in Dublin has criticised the building as being “not fit for purpose”.

Ciaran O’Neill, the Garda Representative Association’s delegate for the old command centre on Harcourt Square, said the the new build, while “impressive”, is in a number of practical ways “not suitable for policing”.