Written answers
Wednesday, 7 July 2010
Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform
Prison Accommodation
12:00 pm
Joe Costello (Dublin Central, Labour)
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Question 218: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform the daily average numbers of prisoners in the Irish prison system in each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30437/10]
Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the table below. Figures are taken from the Annual Reports for the Irish Prison Service. Figures for 2009 are provisional and a final figure will be published in the Annual Report in the near future.
Year | Daily average number ofpersons in custody |
2009 | 3881 |
2008 | 3544 |
2007 | 3321 |
2006 | 3191 |
2005 | 3151 |
2004 | 3199 |
2003 | 3176 |
2002 | 3165 |
2001 | 3112 |
2000 | 2919 |
1999 | 2763 |
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