Joe Costello (Dublin Central, Labour)

I have the facts and figures which indicate there were much cheaper sites. The services are now estimated to cost €40 million, even though there was a previous low estimate of €8 million. What has caused the increase? Will the Minister give an assurance that he will allow Fingal County Council and Dublin City Council to survey the sites at Thornton Hall and Mountjoy to see if there are conservation issues relating to architecture, heritage and history? We do not want him to be a total iconoclast and knock everything down. It is one thing to propose a new prison but it is another issue to demolish part of the heritage of this country.

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