Clare Daly (Dublin North, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

The Minister will agree that solitary confinement is incredibly damaging and difficult for prisoners and should be avoided at all costs. In that context, I propose to ask him about the case of Aidan Hulme, a prisoner in Portlaoise prison who has been placed in what is effectively solitary confinement as a result of issues related to his serious physical and mental ill health. As a result of the amount of medication he takes, Mr. Hulme accidentally caused a fire to be started in his cell. If he had finished his sentence in Britain, he would have been on early release at this stage. I ask the Minister to examine the case of Mr. Hulme and release him from solitary confinement in which he has been placed as a result of ill health.

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