Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 December 2020

Public Accounts Committee

2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons
Chapter 7 – Catering and Ancillary Services in Prisons

11:30 am

Mr. Fergal Black:

No, we have been expanding. As the director general has said, we have ten seniors. We only had six a number of years ago and we secured some funding through this year's Estimates. We are on a growth path to ensure that we develop the psychology service and our goal is to have one psychologist for every 150 offenders. Currently, we are at one per 190 offenders so, by my reckoning, we need another five psychologists to meet our objective.

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