Helen McEntee announces over 600 extra prison spaces to address capacity issues

by PoppedCork

27 comments
  1. Thanks @Simon Harris… I knew she was keeping them in her pocket, it only took real leadership to get her to cough them up.

  2. “she has secured additional capital funding of €93m for major on-site building projects.

    Preliminary work will begin this year on four key projects in Cloverhill, Castlerea, Midlands and Mountjoy prisons as part of accelerated capital construction.

    Many prison campuses have additional unused space, now targeted for Justice projects under the National Development Plan 2024-2026.”

    Well it’s about damn time

  3. Great, maybe I can move I to one when my landlord ups the rent again!

  4. Fixing the justice system and solving the housing crisis at the same time. Just make her Taoiseach

  5. The country desperately needs more prison spaces and more guards on the streets. There is no effective punishment in place at the moment and the justice system is broken.
    The timing of this announcement is very suspect…should have been done years ago.

  6. Credit where credits due, this is good news and is hopefully just the first step in addressing our poor sentencing habits.

  7. Such electioneering. Why wasn’t this done year’s ago.

  8. Why now before an election and not years ago when the need arose?

  9. I’ve a spare room, I could covert it into a prison cell

  10. Laughable the change in decisions and tone from these swamp rats in the last 6+ months. With the flick of a switch Helen McEntee is now tough on crime and immigration, after sitting by and watching the country go to shit for the last 4 years

  11. Is she putting in high speed motors on the revolving doors?

  12. It appears this sub would rather the government stop working entirely if there’s an election in the next 18 months

  13. Am I the only one who thinks she’s kind of good looking and this should count in her favour?

  14. Was waiting for a statement that they are going to buy a few hotels for this purpose…

  15. Why the fuck has this not been the case all along when we CLEARLY have an anti-social behavioural issue in Ireland… and will this even matter when dick face judges don’t sentence anyway 🤷‍♀️

  16. Plot twist , the prison is a 4 star hotel …in Cavan 

  17. Anyone else find this kind of funny. They’re doing absolutely everything a power hungry party of tyrants would do right before the big grab for control

  18. New rule for the public, let not vote in these politicians who have no real world experience and vote people on who have a track record of getting stuff done , unfortunately those that get stuff done wouldn’t want to run for election so we might have to force them at gun point 

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