Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 17 January 2019
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons
9:00 am
Jonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
I echo that. It is an excellent programme that will help reduce reoffending and maintain those family links, particularly for prisoners serving lengthy sentences, which are anything between one year and eight years, as the Irish Prison Service categorises them. Will Ms McCaffrey give me a note on it? I do not want to put anybody on the spot, but is there a reason it is not being rolled out? Is it because the pilot project is still under way or is it still being evaluated? I certainly would not like to see a situation where it is not rolled out due to a lack of resources, whether that is through staffing or any other resources. I would appreciate if it I could get a detailed note on that.
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