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
Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source
There seems to be a number of categories, or that was the response I received to my parliamentary question. For example, something that jumps out to me addresses why claims occurred. The numbers I have were from 2016 and 2017. One of the categories was self-injurious behaviour where somebody has inflicted an injury on themselves. Why would that be a compensatable category if somebody was injuring themselves?
Bacteria is another of the categories. Did that relate to something like TB? There is then a category, from 2016, of wrongful arrest or unlawful detention in the amount of €28,000. The Prison Service does not arrest people.
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