Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

The Inspector of Prisons said in his report that a house in the Grove area has only two occupants, but they will not allow anyone else to share it unless they are attached to their organisation. How can it be the case in an open prison that a group, or members of a group, can determine who else the governor of the prison should put into a particular area? Can I remind the Taoiseach what the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform said arising from a Dáil question last July? He said he had inherited the circumstances that obtain in the Grove, presumably from his very vociferous predecessor, Deputy O'Donoghue. Were the prison arrangements for these murderers ever the subject of discussions between Government representatives and members of the Sinn Féin Party? Will the Taoiseach give an assurance that the decision to locate these prisoners in the Grove area of the Castlerea prison was not the result of any secret deal with the leadership of the Sinn Féin Party?

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