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
Finian McGrath (Dublin North Central, Independent)
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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?