Irish Penal Reform Trust

Parliamentary Proceedings

Parliamentary Question: Prison Accommodation

6th November 2003

180. Mr. Deasy asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the provision which has been made for the expansion of prison capacity; his plans for the construction or acquisition of new detention facilities; and the date by which there will be a substantial increase in prison capacity. [26034/03]

Parliamentary Question: Juvenile Offenders

5th November 2003

276. Mr. Neville asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform his plans to open a temporary children's prison wing for 14 and 15 year olds at St. Patrick's Institution; and his views on the fact that St. Patrick's Institution is an unsuitable place of detention for children and the opening of a children's prison constitutes a reversal of stated Government policy and is inconsistent with the Children Act 2001, which holds that detention should only be used as a measure of last resort. [25658/03]

Parliamentary Question: Prisoner Releases

5th November 2003

281. Mr. Costello asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if persons (details supplied) who were accused of murder, refused bail and remanded to prison were released due to lack of space; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25745/03]

Parliamentary Question: Prison Building Programme

4th November 2003

597. Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the training and development his Department is undertaking to ensure that prison building by the Office of Public Works is done more efficiently, in order that the concerns he identified in Dáil Éireann on 15 October 2003 regarding the building of Wheatfield are not repeated. [25417/03]

Parliamentary Question: Prison Privatisation

4th November 2003

596. Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the research his Department has conducted into the experience of so-called semi-privatised prisons in France; and his views on the evidence. [25416/03]

Parliamentary Question: Drugs in Prisons

4th November 2003

595. Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will provide the evidence on which the Prison Service is basing its proposed policy for compulsory drug testing of prisoners; and his views on concerns identified in countries such as Canada, Germany and Switzerland, among others, that compulsory drug testing of prisoners leads directly to increasing the number of prisoners choosing to inject drugs rather than ingesting them by other methods and thereby directly increasing the risk of HIV and hepatitis C transmission in prisons. [25415/03]

Parliamentary Question: Irish Prison Service Cost of Incarceration

4th November 2003

551. Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 192 of 9 October 2003, his views on other measures apart from reducing the cost of prison officer overtime to bring down the high cost of incarceration here; and if his Department will consider increased investment in prisoner education and rehabilitative programmes, community based prevention initiatives, including education, employment, recreational programmes and other social supports, other cross-departmental measures and planning to reduce the rate of recidivism and of initial offence as another medium to long-term approach to cost reduction in this area. [24789/03]

Parliamentary Question: Irish Prison Service and Reducing Incarceration

4th November 2003

553. Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 192 of 9 October 2003, his views on whether there is room to reduce the number of people in prison without jeopardising public security or natural justice, through the increased use of non-custodial measures; and if so, the short-term and long-term measures under consideration by his Department to this end. [24791/03]

Parliamentary Question: Prison Service

23rd October 2003

345. Mr. Perry asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to an issue in correspondence (details supplied); if funding will be put in place; when it will be granted; the amount that will be sanctioned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23958/03]

Parliamentary Question: Prisoner Escorts

22nd October 2003

247. Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the total annual cost for prisoner escorts in 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002. [24581/03]

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