Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)

Perhaps Labour Party Members should speak to each other before they criticise the Government for not having a strategy. I deny completely that we do not have a strategy. I have stated previously that we are dramatically increasing the number of modern prison spaces available and that we are making legislative changes to stop people being placed in prison who should not be there in the first place. I will not, therefore, accept any criticism. I suggest to the Labour Party that it should get its act together and that perhaps its members should communicate with each other in order that the Senator will know exactly what its policy is on sentencing and prisons.