I support Senator Leyden's call for the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform to come to the House to debate the prisons issue. The Minister should be commended for tackling a matter which should have been tackled years ago. The amount of funding being diverted from the prisons' capital programme is unsustainable. Those of us who visited Mountjoy Prison recently would advocate that the capital programme be put in place to provide humane conditions for prisoners and not diverted to prison officers' overtime, as has happened in the past.