Jonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I want to highlight it because when we talk about safe injecting centres, which I fully support and would like to see rolled out beyond Dublin, we talk about fatalities and how, internationally, there has never been a fatality in a safe injecting centre. There are other health benefits such as preventing hepatitis C from spreading. I want to put that on the record.

My understanding is there is almost a screening process within the Prison Service when it comes to hepatitis C. Although it is not a statutory screening process, it is as good as one. Is it based on voluntary buy-in by prisoners? Is it, in effect, a screening process within the prison service?