§ Lord H. CAVENDISH-BENTINCKasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether he will give the names of the prisons and Borstal institutions in which trained nurses are employed, the number of such nurses, and the training and qualifications possessed by each; whether such nurses wear any distinctive uniform; what other duties, if any, besides nursing they perform; and what provision is made for sick prisoners in institutions in which no trained nurses are employed?
§ Mr. SHORTTNo professionally trained nurses are employed permanently as such in the Irish prisons. At the larger prisons and institutions warders or assistant matrons are assigned for hospital duties who satisfy the medical officers that they possess the required knowledge and skill for ordinary cases of sickness. In certain cases the medical officer has full authority to provide from outside suitably trained nurses, male or female, as he may deem necessary, or if he is of opinion the patient needs care which cannot be given in the prison hospital he may recommend the patient's removal to a hospital outside the prison under the provisions of the Criminal Justice Administration Act.