Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

The Taoiseach spoke about everything from nurses and consultant psychiatrists to airport security being introduced in prisons to address the problem. Will he consider allowing prison officers to arrest a person bringing drugs into prison? We have an absurd situation where a prison officer cannot arrest a visitor who is discovered bringing in drugs for a prisoner. Unless gardaí are available or come quickly enough, these people must be released. I suggest this as a start to tackling the problem of large quantities of drugs being brought into prisons on a regular basis.

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