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

Mr. Don Culliton:

What I am saying is all of the other arrangements I have spoken about do apply in practice but there are occasions when we get to a point with officers who, for argument's sake, are recovering from injury and go into a no-pay situation. That is true. In certain circumstances, and certainly in the circumstances outlined by the Chairman, where somebody has not been signed off permanently by the chief medical officer, we look for redeployment options, such as redeployment to a clerical position in the Prison Service or the wider-----

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