Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein)
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303. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners in each prison on 31 May 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form. [27255/24]

Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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The Irish Prison Service must accept into custody all people committed to prison by the Courts Service. As such, the Irish Prison Service has no control over the numbers committed to custody at any given time.

I am advised by the Irish Prison Service that the information requested by the Deputy in relation to the number of prisoners in custody in each of the prisons is published on a daily basis and is available on the Irish Prison Service website . This information can be located in the Information Centre – under Statistics & Information – Daily Prisoner Population.

To be of assistance, the Irish Prison Service have extracted the information requested from their website and the number of prisoners in custody as at 31st May 2022, 31st May 2023 and 31st May 2024 is provided in the table below .