Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

For Mr. Toland's information, Deputy Clare Daly and I visit prisons a good bit. On one of the first occasions on which we sought to visit Portlaoise Prison, some serious opposition was expressed in terms of what the hell those people were coming down for and the question was asked as to why the hell we were being let in. It took an intervention by the then Minister, Alan Shatter, to get us in.