Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein)
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285. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of inmates currently detained in the Irish Prison Service who are solely being held on remand for between four and eight months and over eight months. [62927/22]

Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael)
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As the Deputy will be aware, the Prison Service must accept all prisoners committed by the Courts and does not have the option of refusing to take prisoners into custody. The numbers in prison is, of course, subject to peaks and troughs.

I am advised by my officials in the Prison Service that data in relation to the number of prisoners who are being held purely on remand for between four and eight months and over eight months is not collated in the exact format requested by the Deputy but the data available is provided in the format outlined in the table below.

The Deputy may also wish to note that this information, along with a variety of other statistics and information, is published monthly on the Prison Service website and as such is available at www.irishprisons.ie.