Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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266. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the cost per week of keeping a prisoner in jail; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51094/17]

Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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267. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the annual cost of keeping a prisoner in jail; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51095/17]

Charles Flanagan (Laois, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 266 and 267 together.

I wish to inform the Deputy that the average annual cost of an available staffed prison space for 2016, the latest year for which a figure is available, was €69,421. This equates to an average weekly cost of €1,335.02 per available staffed prison space.