Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)

Perhaps 2014. While I accept we will produce 450 new spaces before the end of 2009, I have asked my officials to consider the building of a new block in the Midlands Prison complex, where there is plenty of scope for building, as an interim measure. Given the prognosis for prison population growth, I accept there will be a need at the end of this year for another block despite the implementation of 450 spaces.

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