39 Deputy Jim O’Keeffe asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the annual average cost of keeping a person in prison; his views on whether the cost of committing approximately 4,500 persons to prison in the year 2009 for non-payment of fines was an unfair burden on the taxpayer apart from being unfair to many of those imprisoned who did not have the means to pay such fines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19395/10]

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39 Deputy Jim O’Keeffe asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the annual average cost of keeping a person in prison; his views on whether the cost of committing approximately 4,500 persons to prison in the year 2009 for non-payment of fines was an unfair burden on the taxpayer apart from being unfair to many of those imprisoned who did not have the means to pay such fines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19395/10]

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1. 13 May 2010

   Prison Committals

   39 Deputy Jim O’Keeffe asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the annual average cost of keeping a person in prison; his views on whether the cost of committing approximately 4,500 persons to prison in the year 2009 for non-payment of fines was an unfair burden on the taxpayer apart from being unfair to many of those imprisoned who did not have the means to pay such fines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19395/10]

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