Transcript: What prisons boss said on medical cards

At a conference in Cork last Thursday, the director general of the Irish Prison Service, Michael Donnellan, told the audience that agreement had been reached between the HSE and the prison service in relation to ensuring prisoners would have a medical card on their day of release from jail. 

He was asked by Catherine Shanahan if this would apply to all prisoners and he confirmed that this was the case.

Yesterday the HSE tweeted that the story as reported in the Irish Examiner was “not wholly accurate”. To show that our story was based on what we were told by the head of the Irish Prison Service, the transcript of the conversation between Catherine Shanahan and Michael Donnellan is printed below.