Mark Daly (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will be asking the Cathaoirleach to write to the Minister and, specifically, to the officials. It is not appropriate that a Minister would be given a reply to give a Member of the Oireachtas which amounts to an answer to a question that was not asked. That is the point I am making.

The reply, even when it referred to section 102, did not answer the question why the section has not been commenced. It stated it is not necessarily the most cost-effective, and prison costs €263 a day. This is an alternative to prison that costs €6.45 and, somehow or other, it is not the most cost-effective way of dealing with this issue, which is a lie.