Departments split over proposed mental hospital move to prison site

A SPLIT has emerged between the Departments of Health and Justice over the future location of the Central Mental Hospital (CMH).

The Department of Health is insisting the redeveloped CMH should not be identified with a new prison complex.

Last August, it emerged Justice Minister Michael McDowell was proposing moving the CMH, currently located in Dundrum, south Dublin, to a 100-acre site, incorporating a new Mountjoy prison complex.