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

Photo of Catherine MurphyCatherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I note that the witnesses did not anticipate efficiencies following capital projects and that was considered afterwards. The prison population will change now that people will not be imprisoned for non-payment of fines. Have the witnesses considered how that will change the dynamic or the staff-prisoner ratio?

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