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Wed 07 Jul 2010Opposition denounces scaled-down plans for new prison
THE SCALED-DOWN plan for a new prison, with an initial 400 cells, at the controversial Thornton Hall site announced yesterday has been attacked by Opposition parties as inadequate and lacking in credibility.
The project has already cost the State €42.4 million and Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern said yesterday the Government had now decided on a phased approach whereby the prison would be constructed in three stages instead of all at the one time.
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