Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)

I move amendmentNo. 27:

In page 24, line 15, after "Prisons" to insert the following:

", his or her staff or persons authorised by the Inspector of Prisons,".

I will not labour these points. As I stated previously, a number of amendments came from reading the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice proposal. These are intended to strengthen this section of the Bill and ensure the inspector has the power to do his or her job adequately and properly without impediment. This is concerned with the staff, inspections of prisons and ensuring each prison or place of detention is inspected annually and that people have full access to copies of books, records and other documents required for them to carry out their duties and have access to prisoners and members of prison staff.

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