Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

7. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the extent to which prisoners continue to have access to ongoing education and rehabilitative training; the percentage of first-time offenders who are referred for such training in the first year of their sentence; the average number who do not have such access on an annual basis; the extent to which adequate procedures are in place to ensure that procedures within the prison service are geared to discourage repeat offending; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35375/14]

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