Ivana Bacik (Dublin Bay South, Labour)
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211. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of inmates currently detained in the Irish Prison Service that are being held purely on remand for between one and two years and two years or more. [22521/22]

Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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I am advised by my officials in the Irish Prison Service that the information requested by the Deputy, as of 2 May 2002, is presented in the following table -

*Inclusive of male & female prisoners in both institutions.

Ivana Bacik (Dublin Bay South, Labour)
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212. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if guidelines are given to individual prisons in the drawing up of regime management Plans; and, if so, if those guidelines include reference to the need to ensure effective sentence management with a view to rehabilitation and prevention of re-offending. [22522/22]

Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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I am advised by my officials in the Irish Prison Service that each prison, as a matter of policy, is required to develop its bespoke Regime Management Plan based on guidelines set out by the Irish Prison Service.

The purpose of a Regime Management Plan is to assist in providing the maximum out of cell time, exercise, regime and rehabilitative services to prisoners on any given day and to provide prison managers with a system for managing prisons, prison regimes and prisoner populations in as safe a manner as is practicable given the available staff resources.

A central element to each Regime Management Plan is access to rehabilitative services and a core aim of prison rehabilitation is to assist in the reduction and prevention of reoffending.

The Regime Management Plan Policy, its protocols and procedures are designed to take account of other Irish Prison Service policies which are interlinked with service provision and human rights entitlements including integrated sentence management.

Ivana Bacik (Dublin Bay South, Labour)
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213. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she will be publishing the completed Office of the Inspector of Prisons reports into the Midlands Prison, Loughan House, Castlerea Prison and the Dóchas centre. [22523/22]

Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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I am pleased to inform the Deputy that the relevant thematic reports by the Office of the Inspector of Prisons were published on 28 April 2022.

The reports can be accessed on the both the websites of the Office of the Inspector and my Department.

www.oip.ie/thematic-inspection-reports-for-portlaoise-arbour-hill-cork-and-shelton-abbey-2/

www.justice.ie/en/JELR/Pages/COVID-19_Thematic_Inspections_of_Prisons