Prison Service

421. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the country of birth of each prisoner in the Prison Service, by violent crime and nonviolent crime. [54614/26]

429. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the funding needs identified by the Irish Prison Service to meet current and projected service demands, including prisoner numbers, staffing and infrastructure requirements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54671/26]

298. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of prisoners under 21 years-of-age; the number in each institution; the number of such prisoners who are on restricted regimes; the number of hours, each day, such prisoners are confined to their cells; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53826/26]

577. Deputy Ivana Bacik asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration whether, in line with the recommendation of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) to Ireland in July 2025, in which it recommended the establishment of open prisons for women (details supplied), the Government has plans to establish an open prison for women, similar to Shelton Abbe…

364. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he will provide details on the total cost of phase one of the development at The Grove, Castlerea Prison, including all associated planning, construction, consultancy, and related project costs; the total projected cost of phase two of the Grove development, including all associated planning, construction, con…

365. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the total cost of the construction works and modular units provided at Castlerea Prison, Loughan House Open Centre, and Shelton Abbey Open Centre, with the costs broken down on a site-by-site basis and including all associated planning, construction, consultancy, and related project costs; the total cost of the c…

366. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the projected cost of demolishing the old Cork Prison site, including all associated preparatory, environmental, safety, consultancy, and site clearance works required to render the site safe and fully prepared prior to the commencement of the new construction works; and if he will make a statement on the matter.…

367. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the total cost incurred to date by the Irish Prison Service in respect of the Organisation Dashboard Project; the costs associated with consultancy services, including payments made to a company (details supplied) and any other external providers; the costs on software development and procurement, software licens…

368. Deputy Erin McGreehan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the average daily number of users who logged on to the Irish Prison Service Organisational Dashboard during each of the first five months of 2026, by month; the estimated annual costs associated with maintaining the Irish Prison Service Organisational Dashboard for the period January 2026 to January 2030, includi…

8. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration his views on the fact that there are currently no dedicated addiction nurses working in Irish prisons despite his Department estimating that seven in ten people committed to prison have addiction issues; and when he expects specialist addiction services to commence in prisons. [49882/26]

21. Deputy Aindrias Moynihan asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to outline the efforts being made to tackle prison overcrowding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49850/26]

30. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the proposed process and timeline for the two new prisons in the Glen. [49365/26]

501. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the breakdown from the Irish Prison Service of the percentages of prisoner and staff legal claims by sanitisation, trips, slips, falls and sexual assaults, over the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46822/26]

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]

1322. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration if he intends to go through the planning process as outlined in the Planning and Development Act 2000 for the new Cork prison on the old Cork prison site; or if he intends to bring this forward as legislation as was done previously with the Cork prison that opened in 2016. [41986/26]

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 bein…

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. [4…

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]

1985. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Health if her Department funds community prison links services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42056/26]

795. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the composition of prison visiting committees for each of the prisons in the State; the name of each committee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38976/26]

796. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the position regarding the process for appointing a person to a prison visiting committee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38977/26]