Govt accused of paying too much for prison site

The Government will be paying five times over the market price for the €30m green field site for Mountjoy Prison and the Central Mental Hospital, it was claimed today.

Fine Gael claimed that the 150-acre plot on the Dublin/Meath border should only have cost €40,000 per acre instead of the €200,000 per acre price that justice minister Michael McDowell announced last week.