Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
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Question 406: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to any other cases either past or pending apart from that of a person (details supplied) by former prisoners against the State due to the use of solitary confinement as a form of punishment within the State's prisons. [30304/04]

Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)
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The Irish Prison Service does not use solitary confinement, although there is provision in the prison rules for the use of close confinement. I am not aware of any such other claims by former prisoners.