Mr. John Costello:

In May this year we visited Mountjoy and I brought along Stephen Doyle who works full time in Care After Prison and who was a prisoner granted parole after 13 and a half years. He came with us to Mountjoy and spoke to 50 lifers and told them what he did to get parole and rehabilitate himself. He is encouraging other lifers to start rehabilitation work from day one. He has said he will come to more prisons with us to talk to groups of lifers about the work he does in Care After Prison and to incentivise them to rehabilitate themselves from day one. The first review is not until after seven years and quite often many of the prisoners have not done any rehabilitation in those seven years.