Joe Costello (Dublin Central, Labour)

Has the entire project got Cabinet approval? Did the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform close down Fort Mitchel as part of an ongoing industrial relations dispute with the Prison Officers Association, despite it being one of the more successful prisons in the system? Were most of the prisoners transferred to Cork prison, thereby doubling the numbers there and making it the most overcrowded prison in the country? Were prison officers and families scattered to the four winds when Fort Mitchel closed and are there plans to allow those families to return to their homes?

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