Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)

There will be a Garda station at this prison complex as there was at Mountjoy. The question of a forensic science laboratory and the Garda Technical Bureau being located at a secure location of this type has also been considered. It is considered that the location in question would be suitable for such a facility. The present phase of the development relates exclusively to the development of the prison complex, which project is under way. The Deputy will have to table a question to the Minister for Health and Children about the development of the Central Mental Hospital.

On the figures and the question of the access road, it was my view and that of the Department that the dedicated access road represented a preferable arrangement at the site.

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