Brendan Daly (Fianna Fail)

I support the points raised by Senators Finucane and Brennan on the job losses in the manufacturing industry in particular. A total of 27 job losses were announced yesterday in a company in Kilrush. I would like to extend the discussion and invite the Minister to the House to indicate to Members the way he proposes to deal with the recent very large number of job losses in the manufacturing industry in particular.

I do not have a difficulty about a debate on prisons but we should not lose sight of the fact that many victims are concerned that the responsibility aspect appears to be more in favour of the prisoners than the victims. Victims have a very real grievance in many cases at the way in which they are dealt with and we should not lose sight of that in any debate on the issue.