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 Seán FlemingSeán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

My concern is very straightforward. I take it that the nurses cannot write a prescription and that it has to be done by a doctor. If we have 9,000 prisoners, several thousand would certainly require a prescription while in prison. In my opinion having only four doctors available in the system - and I know the service also employs locums-----

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