Ms Tracey Reddy:

There is an additional issue. We have been talking about prisoners being released into the community in urban areas but a lot of people are released back home into rural areas, where there are additional challenges in accessing appropriate accommodation. What happens if a person is discharged on early release on a Thursday afternoon in Kilrush and the homelessness services are not there? What happens if there are no services in the area and no homeless hostel and the address they gave is not one to which they can go? We need to be conscious of this when talking about people going back to their communities. As challenging as the homeless crisis is in cities, at least there are concentrated services there but in rural areas it is very different.