Mr. Vivian Geiran:

The whole area of employment is clearly very important. Whether one has a job can have a big influence on whether one stays away from crime. There are a number of initiatives. Mr. Dack already mentioned the organisation we fund and which has training and employment officers who engage directly with the people under our supervision across the country. That is one initiative. With the Irish Prison Service, we have a joint project established in which we have employed a national co-ordinator in the area of social enterprise to try to develop different types of employment opportunities for offenders, including self-employment and social enterprise. Therefore, there are a number of areas that we are developing.

As part of the interdepartmental group I mentioned, we are engaging very well with the Department of Social Protection on trying to fit what we do with the people under our supervision with its employment activation programmes and so on.