Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 484: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of doctors employed to work in prisons here; the number of hours per week doctors are on duty at the various prisons; and the total cost to the State of the salaries of doctors who work at prisons. [15492/11]

Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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I wish to inform the Deputy that there are 17 doctors employed by the Irish Prison Service to work in prisons on a full-time and part-time basis.

The contracted hours of attendance vary from prison to prison from 10 hours to 39 hours per week per doctor.

The total cost to the State of the salaries of doctors employed in 2010 amounted to €1,023,956.10.

The table overleaf sets out the situation pertaining in each of the prisons.