Written Answers. - Prison Accommodation.Wednesday, 22 January 1997 |
Dáil Éireann Debate
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Mr. Gregory
asked the
Minister for Justice
the places of detention designated for the holding of prisoners for up to seven days in drugs-related investigations.
[1413/97]
Minister for Justice (Mrs. Owen):
Section 2 of [1250] the Criminal Justice (Drug Trafficking) Act, 1996, permits persons suspected of drug trafficking offences to be detained in Garda stations for up to seven days. It also allows for the making of regulations designating places of detention where a person who is arrested under the Act and who is suspected of concealing drugs in his or her person may be detained. I am at present consulting with the Garda authorities about the question of making regulations under this provision. It is, of course, the case that, in the absence of designated places of detention, persons arrested under the Act suspected of having drugs concealed in their persons can be detained in Garda stations.
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