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. Michael Donnellan:
Since the decision was made that no children under 18 would be in prison, we have only taken the 16 year olds out. We still have the 17 year olds. We have repurposed St. Patrick's Institution which is now part of Mountjoy. It is now full with adult prisoners. Then we have a purpose-designed facility in Wheatfield where we look after the nine 17 year olds we currently have who are due to leave it.
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