asked the Minister for Justice the amount which is being made available during this financial year for the provision of education, rehabilitation and welfare services for prisoners; the percentage this is of the total expenditure on prisoners; and the personnel that are engaged in these services.
Written Answers. - Prison Service Expenditure.
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I am afraid that it would not be possible to break down the expenditure on the prison service in the manner requested. The cost of new accommodation or staff salaries or of provisions, for example, could not be attributed wholly to the custodial as distinct from the rehabilitative function of the service and neither could the function of the prison officer be reckoned as custodial only.