860. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the total cost of funding rehabilitation programmes within the Irish Prison System for 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40014/26]
Topics / Prison Service
A subject heading for parliamentary questionsPrison Service
493 questions from 78 TDs, between 22 January 2025 and 22 October 2026.
493
questions
486 written, 7 oral
78
TDs have asked
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parties and groups
Independents counted together
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departments asked
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| January 2025 | 9 |
| February 2025 | 27 |
| March 2025 | 14 |
| April 2025 | 23 |
| May 2025 | 23 |
| June 2025 | 25 |
| July 2025 | 51 |
| August 2025 | 0 |
| September 2025 | 46 |
| October 2025 | 25 |
| November 2025 | 31 |
| December 2025 | 24 |
| January 2026 | 37 |
| February 2026 | 19 |
| March 2026 | 18 |
| April 2026 | 16 |
| May 2026 | 65 |
| June 2026 | 11 |
| July 2026 | 12 |
| August 2026 | 0 |
| September 2026 | 8 |
| October 2026 | 9 |
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The party each TD belonged to on the day, in alphabetical order. Parties differ a lot in size, and members of the Government answer questions rather than ask them, so this shows who raised it, not how much a party cares about it.
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The questions
861. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the performance indicators that are used to measure positive successes within the Irish Prison System; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40015/26]
862. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the capacity of open prisons in the Irish prison system, by location, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40016/26]
863. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of people currently employed within the Irish prison service, broken down by role and by prison/ office location, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40017/26]
864. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the capacity of each of the Irish prison centres, by location; how many are over capacity; the number of people that are detained in each facility, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40018/26]
865. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of incidents that have occurred in Irish prisons that have resulted in disciplinary action, per year since 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40019/26]
756. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration whether planning permission is needed for the construction or expansion of a prison. [37809/26]
757. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the progress of the works on the site of the Old Cork Prison to develop the proposed new prison. [37810/26]
758. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration whether the Irish Prison Service has informed him of commitments made to the people of the Glen prior to the opening of the new Cork prison site. [37811/26]
759. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the estimated cost of the proposed prison on the Glen. [37812/26]
760. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration whether the proposed women's prison in the Glen will be co-located or will operate as a separate facility. [37813/26]
761. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the overall spend in each of the past five years on the Old Cork Prison site respectively, in tabular form. [37814/26]
16. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration given that the prison estate is currently operating at 120% to 125% capacity, the work he is doing to reduce overcrowding within our prisons. [35603/26]
24. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to set out in detail the number of prisons that have a medical consultant who attends the prison on a weekly or monthly basis to provide care and treatment to prisoners who have contracted an infectious disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35668/26]
28. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to provide an update on plans to construct a new prison at Thornton Hall, including the timeline for delivery, in light of ongoing prison overcrowding and the long-standing delays associated with the project. [35707/26]
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]
57. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to confirm that each of the prisons have a system in place which provides a full health check to a prisoner when admitted including screening for HIV, Hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35667/26]
68. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration for an update on the proposed prison expansion in the Glen. [35671/26]
73. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration for an update on plans to further develop Shelton Abbey prison at Arklow, County Wicklow. [35440/26]
80. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the actions he is taking to tackle the prison overcrowding crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35609/26]
130. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the plans the Government, and his Department have to improve capacity within the country's prisons, and in particular the Midlands and Portlaoise prisons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35450/26]
131. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the options, if any, he is considering to increase the use of community service and effective restorative justice to alleviate the current overcrowding in our prison system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35451/26]
144. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to outline the full circumstances surrounding the death of prisoner (details supplied) while in custody, including the timeline of events and the location in which the death occurred. [35574/26]
145. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the investigations that are currently underway into the death of prisoner (details supplied), including any involvement of An Garda Síochána, the Irish Prison Service, or the Inspector of Prisons, and the expected timeline for their completion. [35575/26]
146. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the level of supervision, healthcare, and mental health supports were provided to a prisoner (details supplied) while in custody; and whether he had been identified as vulnerable or at risk. [35576/26]