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:
The claims range from being held illegally, to rights being infringed, to being assaulted by another prisoner, to falling down the stairs, to not getting the right medical treatment. It could be anything. The prisoner gets approximately 10% or 20% of the award and the legal fees cover the rest of it. The awards are relatively small.
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