Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)

I want to clarify the position. Thornton Hall comprised 1,200 rooms to facilitate 1,200 prisoners, but there was a facility, because of the size of the rooms, to, in effect, double up to 2,200, not 4,400. The ultimate capacity of the prison would be 2,200, in the way in which it was designed.

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