Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I know we have a tight schedule but I want to say to Deputy MacSharry that the issues relating to the Irish Prison Service are pretty seismic. We need a session to deal with those and as soon as possible.

I was going to raise the following issue last week or the week before. This committee, through the secretariat, has done a whole range of periodic reports. This is more than a week's work but maybe by St. Patrick's weekend we can go through those reports and send letters to all the relevant Departments to follow up on the recommendations or actions in those reports. We do not know if they have ever been dealt with. I went through a number of them recently and I have no clue whether the recommendations or actions have been taken on board or acted upon. Is it a case of drift with those reports? We need to do a piece of forensic work in following up on the actions and recommendations of the hundreds of hours that have gone in here to bring those recommendations and actions about.