Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We are going to visit one of the prisons. That will be beneficial for the whole committee to see. As I said to the earlier witnesses, if we can be of any assistance in progressing the witnesses' work, we would like to. I believe that the days of locking people up and throwing away the key is long gone. Education is a key enabler to get people out of the quagmire of criminality or such that they may be in. I appreciate the witnesses' attendance and I thank them for coming. The discussion with both groups of witnesses has been beneficial and thought-provoking. I commend them on their work on prison education and for their Trojan effort, which often goes totally unrecognised. Their work is tremendously important to all of society and especially to prisoners and their families. We appreciate that.