Ms Caron McCaffrey:

We have approximately 140 vacancies. We have approximately 3,200 disciplined staff and approximately 140 vacancies at the moment. We are increasing our recruitment plans for this year, and it is our intention to recruit more than 250 officers. Therefore, most of those vacancies are in the area of work training officers, which involves providing workshop activity for prisoners. We have just closed the competition and we are right in the middle of trying to get as many recruits as we can into the system this year.