Earlier, the Tánaiste spoke about the Garda Síochána and the great job they do. I support that and we must all support the Garda. However, the Dickensian condition of Clonmel Garda station has been raised in this House for the last 40 years, if not more. It is not fit for purpose. The Department of Justice has been playing games. It was bundled as a group with two other stations, one at Sligo and one at Macroom. Now, the Department has decided in its wisdom to bundle it in with a new children's court building. They are two different animals altogether. There are contractors and consultants out there who do Garda stations, but a Courts Service building is very different in regard to aesthetics but also building function. Will the Government get it out of this bundle and get the Garda station built?

We have a site that was an Army barracks and it is has been invested in, thankfully, although we should never have lost the Army, and we also have planning permission and design. All we need is to get the building done. The conditions are simply appalling. The Tánaiste has been there and he has seen it. It should never have been bundled with the Courts Service building, which is only a trick of the loop to delay it further.

I had a number of discussions about this with the Minister, Deputy McEntee, before she went on maternity leave. There are a number of Garda station projects that are overdue and that we really need to get on with - Clonmel is one and there is another in Laois and a few others in different parts of the country.

It has been 50 years.

The Deputy may be right that part of the problem is that it got bundled with other projects that are not similar. I am determined to work with the Minister for Justice and the incoming Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to get those projects to tender next year, and that is definitely the objective.