Thornton Hall prison site too expensive, says Government watchdog
The State's spending watchdog has criticised the price the Government paid for the site of a planned new prison complex on the outskirts of Dublin.
In his latest annual report, the Comptroller and Auditor General says the €29.9m paid for the Thornton Hall site is likely to have been twice the market price for land in that area.
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