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. Jimmy Martin:

Yes. There are three avenues into it, the two main ones being the Prison Service and the Courts Service. Prisoners who suffer with mental health issues would be referred by the prisons, admitted, treated and then returned to prison, while people who were found not guilty by reason of insanity or unfit to plead would be referred by the courts straight to the Central Mental Hospital. There would be also be a small number of cases of people with a very severe mental illness being transferred from a normal or non-forensic facility into the Central Mental Hospital.

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