Government lost €2m on asylum seeker site

THE Government has been criticised for making a loss of over €2 million on a former hotel in Co Cork which it earmarked, but never used, as an asylum-seeker centre.

Deputy Jim O’Keeffe, Fine Gael spokesman on Justice, said he couldn’t understand how the State could lose so much money when property prices are at an all-time high.

The Government bought the former Lynch’s Lodge Hotel in Macroom, Co Cork, in October, 2000.