Ms Caron McCaffrey:

We have an injuries on duty scheme which is a Department of Public Expenditure and Reform scheme. Essentially, for an injury, an officer would be entitled to six months' full pay and six months' half pay. We got agreement from the Department to extend that scheme on foot of some of the serious assaults to which our staff are subjected. There is now a specific scheme for prison officers who are the subject of a serious physical assault by which they can avail of 12 months' full pay.