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. Noel Waters:
They have to be accommodated within appropriate security settings. It is not a case of a prisoner saying he would like to be in Cork ergo he will be sent to Cork in all circumstances. There is a wider issue regarding community for having prisons in localities. Several years ago we studied the big prisons and concluded that was not the way to go. We did not want to follow the US or UK model of prisons which in some cases house 2,000 or 3,000 people. The cost of running them would be very significant.
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