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
Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source
How does that impact or has the Department anticipated how it will impact?
Given the range of options that the courts have, such as payment by instalment and attachment orders from salary, ultimately it will mean that save in the most exceptional circumstances and persistent offenders, courts will not be in a position to send people to prison for non-payment of fines. That figure of 8,000 to 8,500, will shrink radically in the next number of years.
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