Ned O'Keeffe (Cork East, Fianna Fail)
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Question 73: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will request the Office of Public Works to identify an alternative site for the development of a special project (details supplied) in County Cork. [38274/06]

Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)
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There are only two sites currently available to the Irish Prison Service in the Cork region for prison development. The existing site in Cork city has been considered in detail and is not deemed to be suitable. The prison facility on Spike Island offers obvious advantages from a security perspective and is immediately available for development. No other sites in the Cork region have been offered for prison development, however, if another suitable site becomes available I would, as a matter of course, give it due consideration.