Jim O'Keeffe (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 91: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the rate of recidivism among our prison population and those who in recent years have been released. [37283/06]

Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)
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While accurate figures relating to rates of recidivism in the prisoner population are not available, I can inform the Deputy that the Institute of Criminology in University College Dublin, with the support of the Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences and with the co-operation of my Department, is undertaking a major research project on the issue of recidivism.