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

No. I do not want to go into private session now. We have received a lengthy and wordy reply, but, unfortunately, some of the stuff included in it just does not stand up and we will probably have to revisit it. I have a concern that, with the best will in the world, the service administration in Longford does not really know what is going on in certain prisons or aspects of the work.

If we look at the mess committee stuff that came back here, it does not really add up. There is other stuff as well. We are not sure that money spent on surveillance was of staff. It is just not credible. Expenditure is supposed to be okayed by the director of operations of the Prison Service. Why would he or she ever okay something without being told what it was for?