Tony Kett (Fianna Fail)

The best laugh of all and the Minister alluded to this was the statement made by a senior spokesperson who said that the system should be put under a microscope to see if money could be better spent. He also stated that many people were appointed not to committees of prisons geographically convenient to them but as far away as possible. The same person was reported in a letter in a newspaper as suggesting a good friend of his from west Cork might be appointed to a position in north Dublin or further north if possible. We are merely looking for consistency.