Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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84. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a prison officer can be reappointed, either by request or by instruction, to another area of the public service or Civil Service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39021/16]

Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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85. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a prison officer can be reappointed, either by request or by instruction, to an alternative role within her Department, other than within the Prison Service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39022/16]

Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 84 and 85 together.

I can inform the Deputy that the Irish Prison Service would assess any request by a prison officer to be reassigned to another part of the civil or public service, whether within my Department or not, having regard to the merits and particular circumstances of the request.