Mr. Karl Dalton:

Regarding the Minister laying out priorities, the strategic plan comes out and it normally has a number of pillars which we are going to operate to. From our perspective, it takes a number of years to bring about change in a prison so it can depend on whether a Minister is going to interfere with that. The current strategic plan has five pillars and we work towards that from a staffing perspective. Whatever direction we are given, we will lead the staff in.

On the VLO and restorative justice, we have very limited experience of restorative justice, but any time we have engaged on it, it has been positive enough. We have no issue around that kind of thing.