Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)

Exactly, in regard to the accommodation. He was the only person who raised any issue of accommodation with me. Nobody raised accommodation in an adverse way.

I strongly suggest to the Deputy, and to Deputy Rabbitte, that they be reasonably objective and perhaps go to Mountjoy. I invite them to do so to see the situation there. That said, as a Government we accept it is not right that a prison should be in a city centre location. That is why we made the decision we did. It should be on the periphery of the city, in order to ensure that egress and ingress of materials are stopped.

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