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

It would not be. I imagine that members would like to revisit some issues relating to the Prison Service. I am certainly not comfortable with the mess committees. I have been wrongly accused, externally, by the Prison Officers Association, of being interested in closing down the mess committees. That is not the issue at all, but the concern is that they are functioning correctly with regard to cash management, oversight and auditing. I am not happy that they are. I believe there are also issues with the tuck shop and general governance of certain issues within prisons, and the level of knowledge that might pass between individual prisons and management in Longford. I am not certain that the appropriate level of communication and oversight is taking place.