Mr. Séamus Beirne:

I thank the Deputy for the question. To underline Mr. Black's comments, there is a module in the training of recruited prison officers and they do a higher certificate in custodial care.

It includes a module on human rights and equality. As staff move along in their careers, there is continuous professional development, under which some courses on equality, diversity, inclusion, human rights and dignity in the workplace are delivered. When staff get promoted to, for example, assistant chief officer, there is a module on equality and dignity training. Training on public sector duty is also provided to governors and directors. As members are probably aware, that has to do with our duty under legislation to eliminate discrimination, provide equality of opportunity and protect the human rights of all our stakeholders. That is the formal part.

In my role as equality, diversity and inclusion lead, I occasionally run awareness-raising sessions in prisons. That is the roadshow that was referenced earlier. We kicked it off recently and are looking in particular at saying "No" to sexual harassment and sexual assault within our prison walls. This is all cross-sectional, in that it refers to Travellers as well as the settled community. As part of that roadshow, we also touch on issues of anti-racism and raise awareness of the LGBTQI community and people with disabilities. We often think of people with disabilities as those with physical disabilities, but I believe it was Ms Ní Chinnéide who pointed out how there were also people with less visible disabilities, for example, psychological disabilities, autism or whatever. We need to have an awareness of what we can provide for those prisoners to make their stay more comfortable, as it were.

There can be racism towards the Traveller community from fellow prisoners. Last April, we delivered a piece on racism on a television channel that we have for prisoners. Members will have seen the national media campaigns on raising awareness of racism and domestic violence. We run those on our internal television channel. We followed up with poster campaigns and the like to highlight these issues and make them more visible.

That is mainly what we do on the education side.