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:
Perhaps I can illustrate the point. I worked in the prisons area as a junior official when it was a division of the Department before Mr. Donnellan's service was set up. Every Thursday and every Friday from about 2 p.m. onwards an official in the division notified us of new arrivals to the door of Mountjoy. Our job was to select from the prison population people who would be released to enable spaces to be made available for the new arrivals.
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