Pat Carey (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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Question 465: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7 who is due for release in mid-2007 can be accommodated in a drug free unit of a prison to facilitate their rehabilitation upon release; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16483/06]

Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)
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The person concerned is accommodated in Wheatfield Prison which operates a drug free unit. Any prisoner wishing to enter this facility must submit a written application and perform satisfactorily at an interview with staff of the unit. The applicant must agree to submit to a series of drugs testing procedures from which negative results must be obtained. Subject to successful completion of these preliminary stages, the applicant must enter into a contract agreeing to future good behaviour and consent to future random drugs testing. I understand that the person in question has made a recent application for such a move and that the request is under active consideration.