James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

A bit of a backlog would be expected because there have been so few transfers and, as I said, there has only been one in the last five years. For some of those who wanted to transfer five years ago, their prison time would have passed anyway. The estimate is that there may be a backlog of about 30 to 40 and once they are dealt with, we are probably looking at about ten per year thereafter. Again, depending on how the amendments work out and what we put in place, those prisoners will have to make a consideration as to whether or not they would still want a transfer. That is the big question, whatever system is put in place.