Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 29 November 2022
Select Committee on Justice and Equality
Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary)
Vote 24 - Justice (Supplementary)
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
I refer to the capital carryover of €3.2 million in the Prisons Vote. The Minister of State talked about the development of Limerick, which is great. I have visited the new Limerick Women's Prison. It is a positive development. It is a great building, but why was there a €3.2 million carryover when Cloverhill is under so much pressure and there is the opportunity to develop, for example, within the footprint of that facility, an additional remand wing, thereby taking pressure off other prisons in the context of remand?
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