Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)

That is not the case and I stand over my comments in respect of hundreds of millions of euro because this is a massive project. As I noted previously, its overall scale is such that this will be a prison for 20 or 30 years time and its overall capacity could be 2,200 spaces, doubled up. While the Deputy has referred to it as a super-prison, it comprises a number of prisons within a single complex. It comprised eight different blocks and was a massive project. Having considered its overall funding, in the circumstances it obviously is not affordable at present-----

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