Sheila Terry (Fine Gael)

I am concerned over last week's disturbance in Mountjoy Prison, which caused serious upset and distress to many of the prison officers involved. This, along with other prison and prison officer issues, needs to be discussed in the House. I call on the Leader to ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform to address these issues here and to outline for us his plans for the prisons and the prison officers.

I also call on the Leader to ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform to come clean and say whether he had anything to do with the removal of security from the journalist, Paul Williams, who is now out of his house because that security has been removed from him. It is very serious to withdraw security from somebody in that type of work who is in danger of attack from many known criminals.