Mr. Niall Walsh:

I will have to draw on international research for the moment. Foster proved the link between who engaged in education or obtained an education qualification and rehabilitation. To tie it into recidivism rates, they are approximately 30% or 35%, but one size does not fit all because the matter is so complex and it depends on the individual. If there was a panacea, Pathways would have patented and run with it. It is a tailored case for each individual who is released. I accept that it can be career suicide for a politician to appear soft on crime and that it must be sold to the public, although that is not the way to consider the matter. I apologise for repeating myself, but it leads to safer communities if the individual enters education. It has a ripple effect for the children of the people in question. While I do not mean to leave out victims, if someone engages in education and reduces criminal activity, his or her children will benefit and the multi-generational problem will be broken. That, in turn, will lead to safer communities.

I am unsure whether that answers the question or assists in selling it to the public.