Jim D'Arcy (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank Ms McCabe for attending. She certainly knows her stuff. Prisons are very difficult places to manage and control, if that is the right word, and all sorts of tensions arise between prisoners in addition to mental health issues and education issues. That is a tough environment for anybody to work in and we must accept that.

We talk about the four healthy prison tests of safety, respect, purposeful activity and resettlement. Does Ms McCabe examine those or does she deal with specific individual complaints, and does she reference those complaints to those issues? What are the two most common complaints she deals with? What two actions would she regard as most important in improving the situation in the North's prisons?