Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 2 February 2017
Public Accounts Committee
2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service
9:00 am
Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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I recoil against that. A site of 160 acres is sitting empty. It is no justification to say that major housing projects have not worked out. That is not an answer to a question about a site of 160 acres bought at €29 million. I have a reaction when I hear that. Major housing developments often got into trouble because of complete lack of input from local authorities, including those in Limerick, Dublin and Galway.