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:

At that time the capital programme was playing catch-up, trying to build cells for the massive overcrowding. Only since 2011 and 2012 have we been able to come off that and begin to design prisons in a different way, based on rehabilitation and additional services.

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