McDowell hopes to lure staff to Longford with crèche

A CRÈCHE is to be built on the site of the prison service’s new headquarters in an attempt to entice staff to move out of Dublin under the decentralisation programme.

Justice Minister Michael McDowell has pledged prison service staff will move out of Dublin to the new Irish Prison Service headquarters in Longford by the start of 2007.

Only a handful of the approximately 150 staff have expressed a preference to move from the current headquarters in west Dublin, which only opened four years ago.