Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Let us say a governor uses his or her discretion to gather intelligence and gives a mobile phone to lifer prisoner No. 56, for example, who gathers information that is fed in and used as intelligence. If a conscientious prison officer then inspects that prisoner's cell, finds the mobile phone and hands it over, what happens to that prison officer? He or she is in the governor's bad books, even though he or she acted in line with the legislation that Ms McCaffrey quoted and the power vested in the Prison Service, has done his or her job and has seized the contraband.