Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

——and schemed to block the sale of Mountjoy Prison and tried to artificially lower its resale value? That is what members of the Labour Party on Dublin county Council did, at Deputy Costello's behest. How can I or the general public take seriously a party that proclaims it is concerned about value for the taxpayer when at the same time it argued for the redevelopment of the already obscenely overcrowded 20-acre Mountjoy site at a cost of €400 million?

Deputy McEntee says another prison should not be built to replace Mountjoy Prison.

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