Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 5 November 2015
Public Accounts Committee
Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2014
Vote 21: Prisons
Vote 24: Department of Justice and Equality
Chapter 9: Development of Prison Accommodation in Dublin
10:00 am
Mr. Noel Waters:
I am not quite saying that but we believe - this is subject to whatever research is done - there is a relationship between the level of economic activity and the numbers of people in prison in the sense that in the period when the country was doing well the figures suggest the numbers were increasing and when the economy collapsed the numbers in prison fell dramatically.
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