I have some reservations regarding paragraph (c), which states that the Minister may grant temporary release where he considers it necessary or expedient to ensure good government of the prison concerned or to maintain good order in and humane and just management of the prison concerned. A system should be in place to detain people to serve their sentences. I have some difficulty with a principle under which people could be granted temporary release simply because we do not have the necessary facilities. The Minister referred in his speech to the closure of what was euphemistically referred to as the "revolving door", but I have come across cases in which it was not easy to accumulate evidence, despite gardaí being convinced that a suspect was responsible for a certain crime and therefore deserving his just desserts. It is not always easy to accumulate the evidence necessary to achieve a conviction but I have come across cases in which offenders are back walking around their towns less than a week afterwards and more or less jeering the gardaí who went to the trouble of putting them away in the first place. That is unacceptable and unfair to society and I have reservations about this provision. While I hope there are no such releases, if there are their number should be negligible.