Minister Ahern opens new Probation Service Head Office 311008
Minister Ahern opens new Probation Service Head Office
The Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Mr. Dermot Ahern T.D. officially opened Athlumney House, Navan on 31st October 2008.
“The offices we are officially opening here this morning are ‘home’ to a range of criminal justice bodies including the Probation Service who have established their Head Office here” he said.
“The Probation Service has, of course, a proud history of working from offices right across the country. They are no strangers to decentralisation. The move of their Headquarters to Navan is very much in keeping with the ethos of the organisation to bring support services to local communities …The Service footprint extends to all 26 counties, it is available to every court in the land exercising criminal jurisdiction and has staff working in all prisons and places of detention.”
Referring to the process of intense change and modernisation within the Probation Service, the Minister concluded: “It is clear that personnel at all levels have embraced the challenges which change brings. They have moved to implement innovative work practices but also to grasp new opportunities in their own professional lives. Moving the HQ here is an example of a forward looking organisation taking the opportunity to work outside of Dublin without any diminution in the delivery of a high quality service to the courts, the prisons and other key stakeholders. I want to wish Michael Donnellan and his team here in Navan every success in your important work.”
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