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

Ms Caron McCaffrey:

We introduced, during 2017, a commitment to ensure that all of our prisoners have at least two hours access out of their cells. So the numbers who have access out of their cells of less than two hours are very small. The last time that we completed a census of our population was in October and that figure stood at around 35. Included in that figure would be prisoners who for medical reasons actually are not in a position to avail of out-of-cell time greater than two hours.

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