Ms Caron McCaffrey:

A substantial project was completed at a cost of more than €30 million to put in-cell sanitation in place and radically improve the accommodation. The accommodation is now of good quality. All the cells in Mountjoy are maintained as single cells, which is of significant benefit to the prison population. All of the attendant services are available on site. We have a school. We have work training activities. There are no plans in the short term for future development on the Mountjoy site. We spent some money recently on the training unit, which is also on the Mountjoy site. We had closed it in 2017 to repurpose it as an older persons' unit. Unfortunately, just as it was finished in December 2019, Covid hit and we did not think it was the right decision to put all our vulnerable elderly prisoners in that accommodation. We are moving now towards its reopening. That has been fully refurbished and decorated.