Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

People have to get certificates of impairment from the chief medical officer if they want an injury warrant, but now I realise the injury warrant is a waste of time because the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform does not use it. In response to another parliamentary question last year, I was told the number of people who retired from the Irish Prison Service due to ill health in 2017 was 17, and in 2016 it was it was 19. There are quite a number of cases each year. Some people feel they should not have had to go down that route and they should have been accommodated.