Ciarán Cuffe
Question:304 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the evidence upon which he is satisfied that mandatory drug testing can play an important role in the overall strategy for tackling the scourge of heroin use among prisoners, when research published by the UK Home Office in 1998 found that nearly nine in ten imprisoned heroin users were not deterred from heroin use due to mandatory testing. [29172/03]