Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the witnesses. I congratulate Mr. O'Driscoll and Ms McCaffrey on their new posts and wish them the best. Guím gach rath orthu ina róil nua.

I have read the annual report. The scope of this is a budget of more than €300 million. The report states that the annual cost of keeping an available staffed prison space for a prisoner is €68,635, which is sizeable but a slight decrease on the previous year. At any given time there are 3,100 prisoners.