David Norris (Independent)

It would just catapult them back in again. It would be a complete waste of time.

I have just learned to my sorrow that there is no such thing as an original idea. I had written down what I planned to say about the annual cost of €90,000 for the detention of people in ordinary prisons and of €250,000 for the fancy accommodation for the Shinners. One could certainly send people to good schools for that amount of money. I am really being serious when I ask why we should not provide for that. Given that we have provided for affordable housing, should we not require snotty boarding schools to take in a prisoner each?