Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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156. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the 2020 report of the Self-Harm Assessment and Data Analysis Project will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57883/21]

Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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Safe and secure custody is one of the key pillars of the Prison Service Strategic Plan 2019-2022. Addressing self-harm in Irish Prisons is a central part of delivering that.

Since 2016, the Irish Prison Service has put in place a system to provide robust data on the incidence and profile of self-harm and suicide attempts in Irish Prisons.

A copy of the 2019 report will be published on the website of the Irish Prison Service shortly.

I am advised by the Irish Prison Service that a full in depth analysis is underway and a detailed statistical analysis and formal report for 2020 will be published before the end of March 2022.

This will be the fourth annual report detailing all episodes of self-harm by persons in the custody of the Prison Service.