Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 5 July 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

Ireland Prison Education Strategy 2019-2022: Discussion

Photo of Paul KehoePaul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will ask a few questions before going back to members. Do the witnesses have any data on the benefits of education in bringing about improved behaviour? When prisoners go back into the community do they continue their education? All of us in our lives, not only prisoners, have a light-bulb moment. It is like lecturing a son or daughter. Eventually they will have a light-bulb moment and start listening because they realise this is the key and what they want because it will change them forever.

Do the witnesses have any experience of that?

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