Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 28 April 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons
9:30 am
Ms Oonagh McPhillips:
-----they fetched €29 million. To some extent, it is a long time ago. There was a certain amount of buying and selling land that was engaged in at the time.
The policy intention, as I understand it, was to sell off the Mountjoy complex in Phibsborough, which was regarded as valuable land that could be redeveloped, and to use the proceeds to build.