Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)

I heard it was in the region of €23 million. That was purchased by the OPW in the context of a future development of the Mountjoy site for housing, for retail and to make it a centre of excellence in the middle of, originally, what was a reasonably depressed area because of the presence of the prison. That was something to enhance that area. The intention is, as the Taoiseach stated, to continue with that project of enhancing the Mountjoy complex once the prisoners are out in Thornton Hall.

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