Dáil debates
Wednesday, 28 September 2005
Prison Building Programme: Motion.
8:00 pm
Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)
At a time when there was gross overcrowding and appalling conditions in our prisons, to the extent that the revolving door policy was operating at warp speed with prisoners being released shortly after they arrived, when one in five prisoners was out on temporary release, the rainbow Government, that slump coalition, cancelled plans to develop more prison capacity and cut back on expenditure generally.
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