Ms Caron McCaffrey:

----- in Mountjoy Prison. We attempt, if we have somebody committed to prison in a wheelchair who has specific needs, to send that prisoner to one of the more modern prisons, where we have the bespoke accommodation available to them.

I believe we mentioned earlier the older persons unit, which is now in the training unit, and that has had much investment with respect to accessible cells to ensure we are in a position to meet the needs of people in our care.

We have approximately half of the prison population today in a single cell. The rest of the population share cells. We are seeing quite a significant increase in our prison population at the moment. We are at more than 4,500 people in prison today, so we are not in a position to give single cells to everybody within the estate. Governors, however, will certainly be very cognisant of the specific needs of individuals in their care. We have a multidisciplinary approach at a prison level where all the team come together to discuss a person. I am sure Ms Campbell and others will talk the Deputy through that process. If we decide that somebody has an acute need and needs to be accommodated in a single cell, then that is something we would work very strongly towards.

I will ask Ms Campbell to come in to speak around the nursing committal assessment for somebody new coming into prison. I believe the Deputy asked what happened and how we collect information and data so I will ask her to comment on that.