Mr. Michael Donnellan:

Early intervention. We are constantly saying that in order to stop people falling out of society and into prison we need early intervention and at the earliest possible time. People end up in the justice system but the justice system has to pick up all of the pieces. It is the education system, the housing system and the social welfare system. As highlighted by the penal policy review group, we need a joined-up-Government approach to drive down imprisonment rates. We have started to do that in Ireland for the first time. A whole-of-Government approach to penal policy is very innovative.