Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 25 October 2012
Public Accounts Committee
Department of Justice and Equality - Review of Allowances
1:05 pm
Mr. Michael Donnellan:
We looked at the governor grades and eliminated the governor 1 grade from every operational prison. We are also looking at the deputy governor grade, which will be eliminated over time. I think we have eight left but we will eliminate this grade over time. We just reduced the management structures in each of the main campuses because we now have cross-management in the campus structure. An example is the Mountjoy campus. Before July 2012, we had individual governors in the four prisons. We now have one management structure across the whole campus so we were able to achieve efficiencies of about 17% there.
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