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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Traffic Management (31 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 192. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 232 of 31 March 2022, if he will share the analyses of the surface mounted counters; if he will provide the data from counters not in proximity to junctions, speed bumps or other traffic calming measures and similar which would influence the speed results (details supplied); and if he will provide...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Traffic Management (31 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 193. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 234 of 31 March 2022, when the incomplete and additional remediation works that he outlined will be finished; and if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the filtered permeability on Military Road does not have signage to prohibit motorcyclists and would benefit from their addition. [28171/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Traffic Management (31 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 194. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 234 of 31 March 2022, if repeaters will be deployed on roads currently without repeaters given that speeding is experienced by cyclists and pedestrians on such roads (details supplied). [28172/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Traffic Management (31 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 195. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 234 of 31 March 2022, the discussion his Department had between the OPW, Dublin City Council and Fingal County Council relating to the change of speed limit in Phoenix Park and the implication for them to erect appropriate speed limit signs (details supplied) at the terminal ends of the 30 km per...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Traffic Management (31 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 196. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the by-laws (details supplied) on the Phoenix Park website will be revised to include the correct speed limit of 30 km per hour rather than the former 50 km per hour limit. [28174/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Traffic Management (31 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 197. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the corrective action that is planned to ensure adherence to the 30 km per hour limit in Phoenix Park given that it was introduced more than two months ago and the incidence of motorists travelling at or below the limit is low. [28175/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (31 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 491. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions being taken in relation to early learning and childcare providers who continue to restrict parents and visitors to their premises, contravening the updated guidance issued by his Department in February 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27283/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (31 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 555. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will introduce a code of ethics for prison staff in line with the Council of Europe recommendation CM/Rec (2012) 5; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27256/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (31 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 556. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will order an annual publication of a measuring the quality of life in prison, similar to research carried out by the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, either by the Inspector of Prisons or an academic institution or NGO; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27257/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (31 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 557. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will amend the Irish Prison Service Prison rules, specifically rule 95 on use of force, to clarify that the amount of force used shall be the minimum necessary and shall be imposed for the shortest necessary time. [27258/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (31 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 558. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the specific differences in the disciplinary code for officers which was affected by the introduction of S.I. No. 261/2020 which revoked the pre-existing S.I. No. 289/1996. [27259/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (31 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 559. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the efforts made since January 2022 to alleviate the position in the Irish Prison Service whereby almost one quarter of prisoners were in some form of restricted regime as per the Irish Prison Service census. [27260/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Reviews (31 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 560. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has considered the civil liberties implications of S.I. No. 250/2020 Prison (Amendment) Rules 2020, which was introduced in the context of the Covid pandemic but contain no reference to Covid itself, have no sunset clause and can be utilised upon the advice of a person at the level of the prison doctor; the timeline...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (31 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 561. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the increase by almost 10% in the Irish Prison Service population since January 2022; the efforts being made to reduce this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27262/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Mental Health Services (31 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 562. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 56 of 5 April 2022, if she will provide an updated publication date for the findings of the high level taskforce to consider the mental health and addiction challenges of persons interacting with the criminal justice system in line with her prior commitment to have done so by the second...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (31 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 571. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 605 and 606 of 17 May 2022, the number of prisoners who had an error identified in the calculation of their sentence by prison, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27337/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (31 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 572. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 605 and 606 of 17 May 2022, the number of prisoners who had their sentence decreased following the 2021 audit of sentence calculations by prison, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27338/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (31 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 573. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 605 and 606 of 17 May 2022, the total number of cases in which prisoners continued to remain in detention following the expiration of their correct sentence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27339/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (31 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 574. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 605 and 606 of 17 May 2022, the number of legal challenges that were taken by prisoners due to errors in sentence calculation; the number of completed legal challenges; the number of ongoing legal challenges; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27340/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (31 May 2022)

Patrick Costello: 575. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 605 and 606 of 17 May 2022, the timeline for the proposed external review of the policies, processes and procedures for sentence calculation; if a shortlist of external candidates has been identified; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27341/22]