Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 February 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service

9:00 am

Mr. Michael Donnellan:

Yes, by and large. There are three other levels of compensation to be dealt with, taking out the one we just talked about. One aspect of that is run by a compensation tribunal, which is similar to a Civil Service tribunal. The State Claims Agency manages the remainder of claims, which includes compensation for both prisoners and prison officers. In the case of prison officers, compensation mostly relates to assaults, but also trips and falls and all the usual hazards one finds in a prison.

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