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- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) Brian Stanley: What is the explanation for that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) Brian Stanley: I have a question on the treatment of whistleblowers. Obviously, sometimes the information they provide is good and sometimes it is not. I understand that prison is a very challenging environment and staff are dealing with very challenging situations at times and all of that. However, prisons would have a high level of autonomy and Ms McPhillips outlined that in her briefing notes, which I...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) Brian Stanley: I will make this point to Ms McCaffrey as well that because each prison has much autonomy, it is important that if staff come forward with genuine information that is not vexatious or anything like that, that not only do we have the process there for them to whistleblow, but also that the consequences do cause suffering. We cannot have a situation where staff that come forward are bullied,...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) Brian Stanley: We will just move on to Thornton Hall. Who made the decision to buy Thornton Hall in 2005? I know it is before Ms McPhillips's time. However, there will be records of all this. Who made this decision to buy those 150 acres?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) Brian Stanley: The Minister, correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) Brian Stanley: What would normally happen?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) Brian Stanley: Was the Minister for Justice at that time Michael McDowell?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) Brian Stanley: There was some money paid for it - €200,000 per acre. I know it is in north County Dublin, but this was good agricultural land and-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) Brian Stanley: -----was making barely €13,000 and €14,000 an acre at that time. Some €200,000 an acre seems extraordinary.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) Brian Stanley: It was a mad time. Even allowing for all of that, good agricultural land was making about €13,000 or €14,000 an acre at the time.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) Brian Stanley: There were other uses for that money at the time-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) Brian Stanley: The State is not an estate agent.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) Brian Stanley: It appears an excessive sum of money. Here we are 17 years later with €50 million buried in it and nothing to show for it. Is it let in conacre, as we call it in the part of the country I come from? Is it leased out every year?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) Brian Stanley: I presume there is beef dry stock on it at present.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) Brian Stanley: It is not a dairy farm, so it would most likely be beef dry stock. In terms of what the land will be used for, it was mentioned that the Irish Prison Service wants to retain some of it for the justice system. Will Ms McCaffrey explain? Will it be for a smaller prison? I understand that the crash came. It is basically a retrofit of Mountjoy. Everybody will accept that the staff are...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) Brian Stanley: The Irish Prison Service is holding 40 acres.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) Brian Stanley: I apologise for interrupting Ms McCaffrey. It has been said that the other 110 acres is suitable for development. What type of development? Is it residential development?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) Brian Stanley: Why did it take eight years to get an updated valuation? The land was valued at €2.7 million. I know Ms McPhillips was said it was a desktop valuation, but it is an incredible fall for a site that was somehow valued at €30 million 17 years ago.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) Brian Stanley: I call Deputy Murphy.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Vote 21 - Prisons (28 Apr 2022) Brian Stanley: I call Deputy Munster.