Jack Wall
Ceist:90 Mr. Wall asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reports made by the probation and welfare service and the Irish Prison Service in relation to the actions required under the homeless preventative strategy, in particular to the operations of the specialist unit, to assist offenders who are homeless on release from custody; the numbers of transitional housing units built, the numbers of additional probation and welfare staff appointed, and the programme put in place with the vocational education committees to ensure the continuance by prisoners of education programmes on release; the monitoring systems put in place by his Department to ensure that the measures in this strategy are implemented and contribute to preventing crime; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23356/03]