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

Ms Caron McCaffrey:

Community return is one. Another programme that we are looking at is the very important Red Cross programme. I must credit all of the Red Cross volunteers who work in the prisons in terms of Covid-19 because they have been central to our success.

We are engaging with the CSO to see if a person's engagement - training with Red Cross, acting as an advocate and a peer mentor within in a prison - has a positive impact. I can only imagine that it does when they go back to their communities.

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