Ms Michelle Martyn:

The late inspector of prisons recommended that an audit on health care in prisons should be done. That might be one recommendation. We have to examine the reasons someone has an addiction in terms of social exclusion. These people often have experienced trauma in early childhood.

The figure for those who completed the drug treatment course is very low at 6%. There are gold, silver and bronze phases and to get to the gold phase one must be drug free. I understand 57 people have completed the course but a previous report highlighted that drug treatment courses in other countries would have residential treatment options but they are not available here as part of the drug treatment course.