Mr. Michael Donnellan:

No, in Ireland we have very little absconding from our closed prisons. The most recent abscond we had was from the Grove Prison in Castlerea in 2013 when two guys hopped over the wall and legged it to London. They are both in Romania and there are warrants out for their arrest. We know where they are and they will eventually come back to serve the rest of their sentences. They have written to us to plead their case but the reality is that if someone absconds from an Irish prison, he or she must come back. They will be caught at the borders. They cannot go to England or anywhere else because their names and pictures will flash up.