Liz O'Donnell
Ceist:669 Ms O'Donnell asked the Minister for Justice the computerisation available in Mountjoy Prison to log committals and releases; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15800/96]
Vol. 468 No. 4
669 Ms O'Donnell asked the Minister for Justice the computerisation available in Mountjoy Prison to log committals and releases; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15800/96]
At present, two committal institutions, Mountjoy Prison and St. Patrick's Institution, are linked to a computerised prisoner record system located in the Department of Justice.
While the system is vital in the day to day running of the prisons service, due to its age and the amount and structure of data now on the system, it cannot readily provide statistical reports of a detailed nature. This problem has led, for example, to delays in the publication of the annual report on prisons and places of detention and generally hampered the collation of up-to-date figuretrends.