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- Recidivism Rate (13 May 2010)
Charles Flanagan: Question 1: To ask the Minister for Justice; Equality and Law Reform the number of suspects who have re-offended while on bail in 2009 and to date in 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19716/10]
- Recidivism Rate (13 May 2010)
Charles Flanagan: The Minister tried for as long as he could to avoid the question, which is quite specific in its import, asking the Minister the number of suspects who have re-offended. Of course, hidden in his spin was the true figure, where he revealed that almost 30,000 crimes per annum are committed by persons who have been suspected and charged with serious crime. The Minister refuses to give the full...
- Recidivism Rate (13 May 2010)
Charles Flanagan: It is regrettable that the Minister does not have the good grace to accept that this is a scandal under his watch. It is too much to expect that he would. All accept the independence of the Judiciary and there is no question of anybody here engaging in anything that might compromise that independence. I have two questions. Has the Minister examined the feasibility of asking the courts to...
- Recidivism Rate (13 May 2010)
Charles Flanagan: I thought the Minister asked the Attorney General last year.
- Recidivism Rate (13 May 2010)
Charles Flanagan: Was the Attorney General not asked a year ago?
- Recidivism Rate (13 May 2010)
Charles Flanagan: Meanwhile people are being killed on the streets.
- Temporary Release of Prisoners (13 May 2010)
Charles Flanagan: Question 3: To ask the Minister for Justice; Equality and Law Reform the number of prisoners granted temporary release from custodial institutions in April 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19717/10]
- Temporary Release of Prisoners (13 May 2010)
Charles Flanagan: The Minister's reply is yet another letdown for the House. He claims it would involve too much effort for his officials and himself to provide the House with the important information on how many prisoners were on temporary release in April. It is also an important question when one considers the current prison crisis. That the Minister does not know or even bother to find out how many...
- Temporary Release of Prisoners (13 May 2010)
Charles Flanagan: The Minister is the last person to see the prison system crumbling all around him.
- Temporary Release of Prisoners (13 May 2010)
Charles Flanagan: We did not.
- Temporary Release of Prisoners (13 May 2010)
Charles Flanagan: That was in the last century.
- Temporary Release of Prisoners (13 May 2010)
Charles Flanagan: Yes and the Curragh facility.
- Temporary Release of Prisoners (13 May 2010)
Charles Flanagan: The Minister wasted â¬40 million of taxpayers' money for the Thornton Hall site. Our prisons are dominated by gang bosses who continue to operate from behind prison bars. Mobile telephones and drugs are rampant in the prisons in spite of the Minister's repeated assurances that they would be tackled. The Minister cannot inform the House how many prisoners are on temporary release at any one...
- Temporary Release of Prisoners (13 May 2010)
Charles Flanagan: The Minister has already wasted â¬40 million of taxpayers' money on Thornton Hall which is now no more than a white elephant. He promised a slimmed-down and phased-in programme for Thornton Hall.
- Temporary Release of Prisoners (13 May 2010)
Charles Flanagan: There is a crisis in our prison system yet the Minister, regrettably, has no plan to resolve it.
- Temporary Release of Prisoners (13 May 2010)
Charles Flanagan: Why did he not say that at the beginning of his reply?
- Temporary Release of Prisoners (13 May 2010)
Charles Flanagan: No, that is not the average. The Minister is massaging the figures.
- Temporary Release of Prisoners (13 May 2010)
Charles Flanagan: The figure is actually 16%.
- Temporary Release of Prisoners (13 May 2010)
Charles Flanagan: The Minister has abused this facility.
- Temporary Release of Prisoners (13 May 2010)
Charles Flanagan: I am not. There is a crisis in the prison system yet the Minister has no understanding of it.