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

What way can it be done? Can that be sent on in writing because the witnesses might not have it in front of them there? Here is an awkward question. Ms McCaffrey mentioned people who are wrongfully detained. How many prisoners are released straight into homelessness the minute they walk out? Ms McCaffrey's predecessor mentioned at this committee that some prisoners have passed their release date but the Prison Service knows they have nowhere to go and the service tries to hold them for an extra period, maybe a matter of days, until something gets sorted. I need to know what arrangements are in place to ensure the Prison Service knows where prisoners who have been released from prisons end up within 24 hours. If the director general has a system that she believes covers that, her system is not working as well as is documented. That is all I am telling her.

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