Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)

Is the reality not that the part of this proposal most likely to be speedily implemented is the provision of a new facility within the Prison Service in essentially what will be an adult prison complex in Thornton Hall? Does that not run directly counter to the decision in principle made by the Government in 2005? As the Government is waiting for the committee to complete its deliberations and report, is it not the case that no final decisions have been made on the location of new facilities or the type of facilities to be constructed and that whoever leaked the information to the newspapers was premature?

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