Jim O'Keeffe (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 125: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the surveys, valuations and other assessments which were made of the lands at Thorntown, County Dublin, between 18 January 2005 and 26 January 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5400/05]

Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)
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As indicated in the minutes of the selection committee's meetings which are available on the Department's website, the site was offered to the Irish Prison Service just before Christmas 2004. In preparation for the meeting of the committee on 18 January 2005, an engineering, planning and technical survey of the site was commissioned and a report submitted to the committee. Two members of the committee alsovisited the site in advance of the meeting.

At the meeting on 18 January 2005, a number of issues relating to the site were discussed and assessed. Subsequent to the meeting of 18 January 2005 and prior to 26 January 2005, site location maps and site layout plans were prepared. Boundary and area surveys, land registry maps and maps showing flight paths were also obtained.