Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 21 February 2019

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:00 am

Photo of Marc MacSharryMarc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That was just one of the three issues I wanted to raise. There was that issue and there was the issue of the reports being done on us which the Chairman might come back to us on. The third issue is the Irish Prison Service. We got the response last week and I raised some issues and further issues have arisen since. I wanted to respectfully ask that we pick a date for a meeting of decent length. I do not know if members will have the time and I know the schedule is tight but we need a dedicated meeting on issues that have emerged. The document that has come back falls well short of the sort of response that we need. I will not hold up the meeting and begin to list them because we would be here until 4 p.m. but we need a full day on the Irish Prison Service and we should not bury it within the appropriation accounts of the Department overall. It should not be on the day we are dealing the Department of Justice and Equality Vote because there are too many matters there. I ask that a date be scheduled for that in early course and that might be communicated to us.

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