Ciarán Cuffe
Ceist:595 Mr. Cuffe asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will provide the evidence on which the Prison Service is basing its proposed policy for compulsory drug testing of prisoners; and his views on concerns identified in countries such as Canada, Germany and Switzerland, among others, that compulsory drug testing of prisoners leads directly to increasing the number of prisoners choosing to inject drugs rather than ingesting them by other methods and thereby directly increasing the risk of HIV and hepatitis C transmission in prisons. [25415/03]