Ms Caron McCaffrey:

It would have to be conducive to working beside a prison. One of the issues that has bedevilled Mountjoy Prison, and one of the reasons we wanted to move to greenfield site, is the issue of drugs being thrown over the yards and its proximity to the canals. Certainly, that remains a problem. Many of our prisons are inner-city prisons. The greenfield site offers an especially secure location for the construction of any new prison.