To ensure that information is made available to the widest possible range of stakeholders, the Irish Prison Service collates and publishes the prisoner population breakdown on a daily basis.
This information is available on the Irish Prison Service website www.irishprisons.ie. This breakdown includes the number of prisoners in custody and the number of prisoners on Temporary Release. The information can be found in the Information Centre – under Statistics & Information – Daily Prisoner Population.
I can inform the Deputy that as of 19 October 2020, 1,344 sentenced prisoners are due for release on completion of their sentence in the next 12 months.
It should be noted that some of these prisoners may have future court appearances which could result in an increase in their sentence length.