Joe Costello (Dublin Central, Labour)
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That is the first point. The second point relates to Mountjoy Prison. Both of those planning applications are literally across the road from each other, the Mater hospital and Mountjoy Prison, and a total of €85 million in taxpayers' money was effectively wasted. However, in the process of the purchase of Thornton Hall there was the sale of Shanganagh Castle, the only open juvenile prison in the country. It was not just that this defrayed the costs, it also resulted in a huge loss to the quality of penal rehabilitation and so forth. Reference to that should be included as well.