Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour)
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Question 131: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of registered heroin addicts in the Cork City and Cork County areas in each year since 2000 to date in 2009; the number of such registered addicts who have been incarcerated at any time since 2004 to date in 2009; the prisons in which they were incarcerated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17285/09]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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I wish to advise the Deputy that the data in the table below has been supplied by the Department of Health and Children and sets out the number of individuals in the Cork area who are registered with the Health Service Executive (HSE) to receive methadone therapy. For personal data protection reasons the identities of these individuals cannot be released. Accordingly, the Irish Prison Service is not in a position to determine how many of these individuals, if any, have spent time in prison.