Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 17 January 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons

9:00 am

Photo of Marc MacSharryMarc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am not talking about any protected disclosure or court case but there is clearly a lot of staff in the Irish Prison Service and there are 11 of us who do research from time to time as I said earlier on so we can come up with our own information and there is certainly anecdotal evidence that a private company was retained to put in private cameras for surveillance purposes. Mr. O'Driscoll told me that we cannot really talk about these things and Ms McCaffrey is saying that we have a rule in place since 2015 which does not permit this, except there was a camera in one instance in Wheatfield Prison which no longer exists, so I am taking that as a "No".

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