I am sure the Minister of State is well aware of the voluntary commitment to programmes called Alternatives to Violence which are run in several prisons. They are available in both parts of Wheatfield, the midlands and in Mountjoy and they have been provided on a once off basis in Limerick and Castlerea. These programmes are extremely important also because offenders must be involved in taking responsibility for the crimes they committed, realise that they were seriously wrong and that they harmed people. They need to understand there are other ways of settling one's disputes rather than, as one woman was accused of, committing grievous bodily harm. She said to me at the time, "I just gave her a bit of biff". I was present to plead for her because she was needed to mind various children. There is a method of trying to get across to offenders that we take seriously what they did to their victims and that as well as incarceration we require them to become involved in a programme to be set up, which we hope will make their lives better once they are released.