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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Data (11 Oct 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: I am advised by the Irish Prison Service that all prisoners who are sentenced to a term of imprisonment, with the exception of life sentence prisoners, qualify for one quarter remission on the basis of good behaviour. In addition, prisoners who have engaged in authorised structured activity may apply to receive enhanced remission of greater than one quarter but not exceeding one third of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Irish Prison Service (11 Oct 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: The budgetary allocation for the Irish Prison Service for the years referred to by the Deputy were as follows: 2016 - €332,058,000 2011 - €349,583,000 2006 - €389,572,000 The Irish Prison Service operates as an executive agency within the Department of Justice and Equality. It is headed by a Director General supported by five Directors (two of these posts are...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Irish Prison Service (11 Oct 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: I can advise the Deputy that the Irish Prison Service operates within the parameters set out in Irish, European and international human rights law and promotes equality and human rights through its policies and practices. Separation of male and female prisoners is provided for under Section 52 of the Consolidated Prison Rules 2007-2014. Female prisoners are accommodated in the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Medical Service (11 Oct 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: I am advised by the Irish Prison Service that the level of maternity care provided to women in custody, including both pre and ante-natal care, is comparable to that available to women in the community.  It is provided on a shared care arrangement between the maternity hospital to which the patient is referred, and the Healthcare Team in the Dóchas Centre. Pregnant women...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Education Service (11 Oct 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: I am advised by the Irish Prison Service that it provides a wide range of rehabilitative programmes to persons in custody that include education, vocational training, healthcare, psychiatric, psychological, counselling, welfare, and spiritual services. These programmes offer purposeful activity to those serving their sentences and encourage them to lead law abiding lives on release. These...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Drug Treatment Services (11 Oct 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: I am advised by the Irish Prison Service that the total expenditure on pharmaceuticals (including all medicines, and methadone) in 2015 was €2,697,163. Professional General Pharmacy Services are provided in all prisons on the basis of a contract with a local community pharmacy, and both the technical (supply) and professional (pharmaceutical care) elements of pharmacy service...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Data (11 Oct 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: I am advised by the Irish Prison Service that on 30 September 2016 there were 347 prisoners in custody serving life sentences. I can also advise the Deputy that there were a further 82 prisoners serving life sentences in the community on reviewable temporary release, who continue to serve a life sentence under the supervision of the Probation Service. The average time these prisoners served...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Inspector of Prisons Remit (11 Oct 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: The report of the Inspector of Prisons on the prisoner complaints system “Review, Evaluation and Analysis of the Operation of the present Irish Prison Service Complaints Procedure” was published on 8 June, 2016 and is available on my Department's website - www.justice.ie.This identified a number of concerns in the implementation of the current complaints procedure. Arising from...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (6 Oct 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: Essential appointments were made earlier this year when the Policing Authority had just been established. In fact, that was the last group of appointments to be made under the old processes. The new regulations will be in place before the end of the year and the next group of appointments will be made by the Policing Authority, as was always the intention.

Statement of Estimates for the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion (6 Oct 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: I move:That Dáil Éireann take note of the Statement of Estimates of moneys required in respect of ongoing expenditure for the period beginning on 1st January, 2017 and ending on 31st December, 2017, prepared and published by the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission in accordance with section 13 of the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Act 2003, as amended by section 8 of the Houses...

Proposal on Matrimonial Matters, Parental Responsibility and Child Abduction: Motion (6 Oct 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: I move:That Dáil Éireann approves the exercise by the State of the option or discretion under Protocol No. 21 on the position of the United Kingdom and Ireland in respect of the area of freedom, security and justice annexed to the Treaty on European Union and to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, to take part in the adoption and application of the following...

Appointment of Member of the Legal Services Regulatory Authority: Motion (6 Oct 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: I move:That Dáil Éireann, noting that the Government agreed on 27th September, 2016, to propose, for the approval of Dáil Éireann, the appointment of Eileen Barrington SC to be a member of the Legal Services Regulatory Authority, and pursuant to section 9 of the Legal Services Regulation Act 2015, approves the appointment, with effect from the establishment day to be...

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion (6 Oct 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: I move:That, notwithstanding anything in the Order of the Dáil of 6th May, 2016, setting out the rota in which Questions to members of the Government are to be asked, Questions for oral answer, following those next set down to the Minister for Social Protection, shall be set down to Ministers in the following temporary sequence:Minister for Health Minister for Public Expenditure and...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (6 Oct 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: That will be discussed with the appropriate trade ministers this Friday in Bratislava. Clearly, Ireland will outline its position there. I will ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Mary Mitchell O'Connor, to contact Deputy Pringle directly about the position of the Irish Government.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (6 Oct 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: That is a matter for the Business Committee.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (6 Oct 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: The bail Bill will be published this term.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (6 Oct 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: The heads of that Bill are expected before the end of the year, after which there will be the usual pre-legislative scrutiny.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (6 Oct 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: We expect that the housing (miscellaneous provisions) Bill will be published within three weeks. It is due very urgently. Work is still under way on the landlord and tenant law reform Bill.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (6 Oct 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: I will ask the Minister for Health to respond to that.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (6 Oct 2016)

Frances Fitzgerald: We are expecting that Bill in November.