Ivor Callely (Dublin North Central, Fianna Fail)

The two Prison Service open centres at Loughan House and Shelton Abbey will close, one in October and the other in November 2005. It is important to record that the Minister intends to replace them with open centres for persons on temporary or early release from prison, and they will be managed and operated outside the Irish Prison Service. He plans to expand the new open centres by up to 50%. Staff serving in those institutions will be redeployed permanently at that time to other institutions.

As I am out of time, might the rest of my speech be recorded in the Official Report?

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