Lynn Ruane (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Brilliant. I have one last question for Mr. Graham. He has been in prison for a while now, but he has also lived through the Covid-19 pandemic in the prison system. Can he speak a little about the impact of that experience? In society beyond the prisons, free hugs were being offered in the streets at one stage because people were so deprived of human touch and because of the resulting impacts felt from that loss. During Covid-19, people may have got a small taste of what it was like to be so removed from touch, although that was only true for those people who did not live in a home with others. Will Mr. Graham talk a little about the response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the impact of the virus, the effects of a lack of human contact and how that might have interrupted rehabilitation efforts for many?