Ms Caron McCaffrey:

The general concerns raised by the auditor relate to items coming in to prison stores and potentially being diverted to the mess committees. As I clarified earlier, there are separate contracts in place that the mess committees buy from. They are separately paid for and separately delivered to that area of the mess committees, with the exception of our high-security prison. We recently completed an audit on catering activities in three prisons, and we identified one issue in respect of a mess committee, which concerned milk being provided from the prison stores to the mess committee and not being appropriately paid for. That matter has been rectified, and in addition to it being paid for going forward, we have been very clear with the governor and the mess committee that any milk provided and not paid for will be back paid by the mess committee.