Dáil debates
Tuesday, 27 April 2010
Irish Prison Service.
12:00 pm
Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
If we move forward a decade to 6 February 2007, we find that there were 3,262 people in custody. Yesterday, there were 4,197 people in custody. It behoves all of us in this House to speak on the basis of an understanding of the pressure on the Prison Service to deal with this increase in numbers.
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