Public-private partnership 'one option' for building Tralee courthouse 

FOI reveals new facility 'depends not only on the availability of a suitable site but also on the availability of funding'

Tralee courthouse.  Kerry is one of only five counties whose court buildings have not been upgraded and the 19th-century building needs double the courtrooms as well as custody and jury facilities. Picture Denis Minihane 

A new courthouse in Tralee “depends not only on the availability of a suitable site but also on the availability of funding”, and a public-private partnership to build a bundle of courthouses across five counties is one of the options, documents released under FOI reveal.

Kerry is one of only five counties whose court buildings have not been upgraded and the 19th-century Tralee building needs double the courtrooms as well as custody and jury facilities, and legal practitioner suites, the documents released by the Courts Service state.