Charles Flanagan (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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Question 321: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the approximate number in the prison service escort corps for 2007 and 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28656/09]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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The Prison Service Escort Corps was set up in 2005 arising from the Proposal for Organisational Change in the Irish Prison Service. The approved number of staff in the Escort Corps during 2007 and 2008 was 143, inclusive of all grades. I have been advised that, allowing for temporary variations caused by the retirement or movement of staff, the actual number of staff employed remained at or very near the approved number during 2007 and 2008.