Ms Caron McCaffrey:

We have been engaging very well with our counterparts in the HSE on hepatitis C. We now have an in-reach programme for prisons in Dublin. There is a hepatitis C specialist nurse who attends the Dublin prisons to do testing and administer treatment. We do not have a similar arrangement for the rest of the country, although we have had a pilot programme in Cork Prison, where again we had in-reach services coming in to provide the service within the prison.

Following our engagement with the HSE, it has agreed to provide us with a second specialist hepatitis C nurse who will cover the rest of the country.