Mr. Vivian Geiran:

This is partly coming from my background in the criminal justice system, but it is critically important to set standards in the first place because if we do not set the standards we will never get to where we need to be. In the criminal justice system, as in health services, there are various systems of inspection.

Even within the prison context, the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture visits Ireland, as well as every other country, every so often and points out - as does the Inspector of Prisons here - faults and failings and so on.