Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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268. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of funding allocated to the Prison Service under the capital plan 2016 to 2021; the amount spent in 2016 and 2017 respectively; the breakdown of the expenditure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3193/18]

Charles Flanagan (Laois, Fine Gael)
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I wish to inform the Deputy that the total capital provision for the Justice Sector over the remaining four year period of the existing Capital Plan is €822 million after technical adjustments for transfer of functions and reclassification of expenditure between current and capital.

The final breakdown of the capital allocation across the individual votes in the Justice sector over the remaining four years of the period of the Plan to 2021 will depend on priorities and the progress made on the various projects across the sector. However, it is likely that the capital budget for the Prisons vote will be in the region of €120 million.

This will enable continued investment in the Prisons Building Programme including the construction commencing in 2018 of a new modern wing in Limerick Prison with in-cell sanitation and a dedicated stand-alone female prison for the Munster region.

The Prisons Service has spent €21.5 million in 2016 and €22.8 million in 2017 in capital expenditure. The expenditure broadly relates to the Prison Building Programme (2016 €18.7 million, 2017 €19.2 million), ICT (2016 €1.3 million, 2017 €1.5 million) and the Transport Fleet (2016 €1.5 million, 2017 €2.1 million).