Mr. Aidan O'Driscoll:

It is a matter for the Chairman, but I presume Deputy MacSharry is about to go through a list of questions about prisons. I am geared up to deal with the justice and equality Vote and not the prisons Vote, but if the Deputy sends us, or gives us, his list of questions, we will endeavour to answer them as best we can. I propose to do so in writing with the advice of the Prison Service.

On the last occasion we were before the committee on the prisons Vote, the Deputy raised a large number of significant allegations. We provided to the committee very detailed responses to those.