Ms Clodagh Carroll:

I would really like that to be something Barnardos could support within the pre-sentencing piece in order to support Ms Sweeney in that moment and to advocate on behalf of what her children need, as well as what Ms Sweeney needs as a mum. This is a reasonable ask. It is fair for her to need that and for her children to need it. That could then help with so many of the next phases of why a person is incarcerated, on how he or she can have a relationship with his or her children and on how the children feel when they go to sleep at night knowing what is going to happen next.