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. Seamus McCarthy:

Yes, absolutely. Even in doing the report we could already see some improvements between 2018 and 2019. A number of changes occurred there, including in the prison tuck shops and in the ceasing of sales to staff members in 2019. One can even see the impact on the profits in the year. Certainly, I would welcome the changes that have been outlined by the director general. I think they would represent significant improvement and will make improvements as they are implemented. Finally, we will come back and look at this again in subsequent audits and I expect I will report to the committee again in future on how these recommendations have been implemented. That should give more roundedness and an assurance to the committee that recommendations have been acted on.

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