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

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9:00 am

Mr. Michael Donnellan:

We have drug treatment programmes. We have a detox programme in Mountjoy Prison. We have over 500 people in the prison system on methadone, which is a treatment for drug addiction. We also have 18 drug treatment places in Mountjoy Prison.

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