Clare Daly (Dublin North, United Left)
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132. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason items purchased by prisoners in a prison shop cannot be transferred with them when they leave one prison to go and spend time in another. [24240/15]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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I am advised by the Irish Prison Service that the issuing of property including authorised and prohibited articles is Governed by Rules 8 and 9 of the Prison Rules 2007. In addition the Irish Prison Service has a policy in place on prisoner property. This policy provides that all property in the prisoners cell, or in storage for a prisoner, should transport with the prisoner on transfer and where this is not immediately possible as soon as possible thereafter.

If a prisoner has a specific complaint regarding an item of property he/she can make a request to the Governor to investigate their complaint within the context of the Prisoner Property Policy.