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:

We have 3,715 people in prison today. We have 109 women in the Dóchas Centre. We have 32 women in the Limerick centre. As we indicated earlier, we are going to develop a brand new purpose-built 50 bed unit in Limerick because the Limerick unit is old and dilapidated. That will go to contract later this year and the building will start early next year. Again, it will be a regional response for women. The idea is that women from Limerick, Galway or Sligo will not have to come to the Dóchas Centre, which can be under pressure in terms of numbers.

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