Mr. Fergal Black:

Our annual budget is just over €25 million. Effectively, I have responsibility for non-security issues. I am responsible for education, work training, psychology, chaplaincy and all of the services that are there to assist prisoners. In terms of education, for example, the service is provided by the Education and Training Boards, ETBs. They provide the 220 whole-time equivalent teachers across the 13 prisons. The cost of their salaries is not included in our budget of €25 million. Similarly, the cost of the 250 work training officers that we employ, which amounts to approximately €16 million, is not included in our budget. The programme costs also include pharmaceuticals and all of the other elements of a care and rehabilitation service.