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

With respect, we can enter into an administrative merry-go-round and we will be here until next week.

People's individual styles aside, there is nothing better than a good conversation to cut out six weeks of correspondence and toing and froing. While that is the norm, unfortunately, what we know of the Prison Service so far is well outside the norm and, in fairness to the secretariat, I would not expect it to begin to undertake to write a letter as long as would be required to reflect the issues that remain outstanding.