'There has to be some compromise' when housing transgender prisoners, former Mountjoy governor John Lonergan has said.
Mr Varadkar was responding to questions about a transgender woman who was jailed for threatening to torture, rape and murder her mother.
"It became a human right; I'm sure when they were passing the legislation... they did not consider some of the consequences - like prisons., it's going to be an issue in other residential institutions and residential centres - and maybe for hospitals and for the Garda Síochána in due course".He said a prison is a particularly sensitive area.
"Then you have the other side of that argument... women in prison, many of them are objecting to the fact that [someone] who was once a man, now a woman, is going to be sharing and living in an institution that they are confined in. "All sex offenders are segregated, and in some cases fairly seriously restricted in relation to their access to services - simply on the basis that they crime they committed is not acceptable to a vast number of prisoners," he said.
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