Seanad debates

Wednesday, 21 May 2003

Decentralisation Programme: Statements.

 

The Prison Service was decentralised to Castlereagh, a development for which the people there fought. When a former Fine Gael-Labour Government decided to scrap that project, a wall was built around the complex. Every time those parties were in Government, they removed something from Roscommon. I believe Nora Owen was the then Minister for Justice. People protested on the streets of Dublin in this regard. One American said, "My God, they want a prison. Down our way in Delaware we don't want a prison." People in Roscommon were so desperate that they fought for a prison and they got it, despite the actions of the Fine Gael-Labour coalition Government. Senator Feighan will have to fight very hard to make sure he secures decentralisation for County Roscommon if he wants to move from this House to the other House following the next general election.

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