Marcella Corcoran Kennedy (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank Mr. Johnson for sharing his story. It is inspirational to see how he has come from being a young offender to where he is now. I look forward to learning more from him. It would be interesting to get more information as his work with Mountjoy deepens. Perhaps there will be a mechanism through which he can feed back his results to the committee.

If I am a young offender spending my first night in Mountjoy and I have heard that Mr. Johnson is coming in and I want to engage with him, how does that happen? How does he make that connection with young offenders? How do they hear about it? What do they do if they want to engage with him but are not good at communicating? How does he get through to them? What techniques does he use? Does he explore their personalities and what they need through the arts or music? Could he expand a little on that?