Mr. Noel Waters:

Right now we have spare capacity in the system. Let us take Mountjoy which is the pivotal prison in the system though perhaps less so than it would have been at the time Thornton was planned, it is at 88% capacity over the course of this year. In 2010 Mountjoy was at 108% capacity. In real time figures, average numbers in Mountjoy in 2010 were 683 while the capacity was 630. In 2015 to date, on average, the numbers in custody are 490 where capacity is 554.