Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 24 June 2025
Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration
Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised)
2:00 am
Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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I visited Cork Prison - the new prison - and it is a very fine prison. I am aware of what the Deputy is saying about overcrowding in prisons. It is a challenge that I have. The only way we are going to be able to deal with it is by getting further prison spaces. I have proposal that we will redevelop. It will be part of the old prison site. It is just going to be an extension of Cork Prison. That could provide us with 230 male spaces and 100 female spaces.