Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 11 March 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Repatriation of Irish Prisoners in the United Kingdom: Irish Council for Prisoners Overseas

2:40 pm

Photo of Finian McGrathFinian McGrath (Dublin North Central, Independent) | Oireachtas source

That is not a huge issue. I was very surprised to hear about the number of prisoners, some 1,054, in prisons abroad. It is a very high figure for a small country. Why did the witnesses say this figure could be even higher?

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