Feargal Quinn (Independent)

Yesterday the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform announced that he intended to introduce electronic tagging for offenders. This is a matter I raised in the House seven or eight years ago and I am delighted to see that action has been taken on it. Governments in the past have not always made use of available technology to solve problems. Legislation will be required and I ask the Leader to urge the Minister to introduce this legislation soon. He does not need to introduce legislation to build many more prisons. This is a system which will dispense with the need to put some people in prison.

I raise this because the speed at which we get things done——