More than €2m spent on unusable reintegration unit

The Department of Justice spent over €2m on an adult offender reintegration unit at an apartment complex the State’s legal advisers failed to confirm could not be used due to red tape.

The unit was intended to house residents from a probation unit found to “pose a serious health, safety and fire risk”.

In Jun 2008, the department’s probation service leased a property on Wolfe Tone St in Dublin City for its Bridge Project group, as part of its move from older accommodation on Parnell St.