Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú) | Oireachtas source

I will give an example. When Senator McDowell was the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, he bought Thornton Hall in north Dublin for a new prison. Thornton Hall is under potatoes at the moment even though it cost the country a large amount of money. The State owns a great deal of land that is not being used for the purposes it was purchased for at a significant cost to the State. I do not just mean the financial cost, but also the opportunity cost. The Government is not making use of that land to the benefit of the Irish people. I understand that dozens, if not hundreds, of acres at Thornton Hall are owned by the State but are under potatoes during a housing crisis. Does the Minister of State know of other lands that were bought by the State for a particular purpose but are not being used for that purpose?