Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

There were not even television sets in the rooms when I visited yet those detained in Dundrum are mainly innocent of any criminal misdemeanour.

If we are really interested in value for money we should have the Comptroller and Audit General examine the significant amounts of money wasted when Labour and Fine Gael were last in Government. The amount wasted on prison overtime alone because of their failure to tackle that problem would have bought the site at Thornton without any difficulty.

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