Jennifer McCann of Sinn Fein asked the minister whether he thought it was only right that prison officers who took part in the exit scheme should be prevented from being reemployed in the service.
Also, as my colleague Ashlea Ebeling wrote in May, the Urban Institute released a report showing that median monthly earnings fell 23% after an unemployment spell for reemployed workers aged 50 to 61, compared with just 11% for workers aged 25 to 34.