Ms Caron McCaffrey:

In terms of our capital strategy, we are looking at building on our existing footprint, because obviously they are fully serviced sites. We have staff and services on those sites.

We are not looking to build on any greenfield sites at the moment. We are looking at where we can build on existing sites and augment capacity in the quickest manner we can, as opposed to starting on a greenfield site. There would be huge leaps in time in terms of building on a greenfield site.

On the in-cell telephony, prisoners can make their phone calls from their cells. My ambition is a little bit more. I want families to be able to ring in. If you have a six-minute phone call, or two six-minute phone calls, you may ring your child, mother or partner when they are at work, when they are busy with their daily lives, and it is really artificial. My plan is that every prisoner could have three ten-minute phone calls up to midnight, where their family could ring directly into their cell. We have a very strong security system in place. People's phone numbers are approved, so they can only call an approved person, and only those approved persons could ring them. If we are really serious about maintaining family contact and support, it is incumbent on us to do as much as we can to support those relationships because we know that people who have strong family contact and support are much less like to offend when they leave. We see this as a significant way in which we can support those relationships.