Certainly the Garda have been doing an excellent job in this area of crime prevention. However, will the Minister not agree that we must have a system of imprisonment whereby joyriders and car thieves will serve their full prison sentences? Can he assure the House that it is his intention to make sure that those convicted in our courts on these very serious charges will have to serve their sentences and that accommodation will be provided to ensure that they do so?

(Limerick East): I have dealt with the question of accommodation on previous occasions. Up to last Friday and the three weeks prior to that we were accommodating 123 more people than we were in the previous weeks. I have already given assurances that people who steal cars will serve their full sentences. The Deputy probably has in mind publicity over the weekend which suggested that somebody who was serving a sentence for car stealing had been released prematurely. That is so. The case as presented to me was that the man was serving a sentence for the larceny of £14 worth of goods. The fact that he had also been convicted for car stealing was not presented to me. He was let out on a weekly release that was renewable but his release is not being renewed for the coming week. He will be back in prison tonight.