Questions

1300. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of prisons which do not have access to in reach specialist healthcare services within the Irish Prison Service; the steps being taken to ensure equitable access across all prison locations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41622/26]

1301. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the timeline for introducing clinical IT systems within the Irish Prison Service to enable the collection of data on the number of prisoners being treated for infectious diseases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41623/26]

1452. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he is aware that according to a report (details supplied), citing the Office of the Inspector of Prisons Annual Report 2024, Limerick Women's Prison, which opened in October 2023 with capacity for 54 inmates, was operating at 144% of its capacity with 80 persons in custody by November 2024; the steps being taken to address o…

1453. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he is aware that according to a report (details supplied), 77% of new prison admissions in 2024 were sentenced to less than one year; his views on the continued use of short custodial sentences and the availability of alternatives to custody; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44034/26]

1454. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration whether he will act on the recommendation of the Office of the Inspector of Prisons in its 2024 Annual Report that an enforceable upper limit be placed on the number of persons who can be committed to prisons in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44035/26]

1457. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he is aware that according to a report (details supplied), the number of prisoners held on remand in Ireland increased by 34% between 2019 and 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44040/26]

1458. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of deaths of persons in the custody of Cork prison in each of the years 2021 to 2025 and to date in 2026, including deaths occurring in the prison, in hospital, and deaths occurring within one month of a grant of temporary release, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44041/26]

1459. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of recorded prisoner-on-prisoner assaults; the number of recorded assaults on staff in Cork Prison in each of the years 2021 to 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44042/26]

37. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration given the current overcrowding, if he will expand on the proposals for the use of the old prison site at Rathmore Road, Cork city; if he will engage with the Prison Service to ensure that any retrofit would include a provision for community facilities and use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34353/26]

62. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to outline his Department’s policy in relation to the use of “electronic tagging” of prisoners, specifically with reference to the acute overcrowding of prisons we are facing; if the number of electronic tags in circulation could be provided for each of the years since the inception of tagging, in tabular form; and if he will mak…

805. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the steps being taken to ensure an adequate complement of healthcare staff at Cork Prison following the recent Annual Report of the office of the Inspector of Prisons which stated there is a need to increase the GP hours on site; if there are plans to recruit additional nursing staff; if there are plans to strengthen psychology …

806. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the way in which he plans to progress the recommendations of the annual report of the Office of the Inspector of Prisons particularly in relation to Cork prison; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63735/25]

7. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he will expand on the proposals for the use of the old prison site at Rathmore Road, Cork city; if he will engage with the Irish Prison Service to ensure any extension to that facility includes a provision for community use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35407/25]

161. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Justice if he will provide an update on the overcrowding at Cork Prison; the steps being taken to address the capacity issues on site at present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24538/25]

167. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Justice the number of prisoners per annum in Cork Prison from 2020 to 2024, in tabular form; the measures being taken to tackle capacity issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12430/25]

228. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Justice if he will provide extra capacity at the old Cork Prison site to offset overcrowding in the new block; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5185/25]

229. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Justice the number of assaults-incidents involving prison officers in Cork Prison and each of the State prisons in 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5186/25]