Michael Clifford: Culture of 'indifference, hostility, and ineptitude' at women's prison

Issues arose following a complaint made by a prisoner that she had been induced by two senior staff members to implicate another senior staff member in malpractice

Helen McEntee: Justice minister ordered the Inspector of Prisons to conduct the statutory inquiry under the 2007 Prisons Act. Picture:Gareth Chaney

The justice minister rarely orders a statutory inquiry under the Prisons Act.

In November 2018, following a report in the Irish Examiner, then-justice minister Charlie Flanagan ordered one into covert surveillance in the Irish Prison Service.