Ms Anne Costello:

Yes, for certain. People say: "Expose young people to prison and then they will not go there." Many Travellers in prison have been to prison to visit their fathers, and now they are in prison. That does not work. People are much more likely to end up in prison if their parents have been in prison. The huge concern Traveller women have if they are going to prison is what will happen to children, whether they will be taken into care and whether they will ever get them back.