Ms Caron McCaffrey:

Part of it is certainly as a result of the backlogs in the court services because of Covid. These are washing out through the system now. Part of it is around the assignment of additional judges and an increase in the number of court sittings. It is the case that we may see increasing numbers over the coming years. As I mentioned, we have introduced more than 200 new spaces in the last 18 months. Subject to the availability of resources, we have plans this year to introduce an additional 70 spaces. Across those four projects we want to ensure that we have additional capacity to meet a growing demand for prison spaces.