Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 April 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons

9:30 am

Mr. Fergal Black:

I do not have a timescale for all the prisons. Our intention is to have both pilots operational this year in Cork and Limerick. They will then be evaluated and, in consultation with our colleagues in the HSE, we will seek to roll that out across prisons throughout the country. We have had this operational through a collaboration between Mountjoy clinical staff, our staff, and the Mater Hospital on an interim basis for a number of years. We are now looking to develop a programme that will be consistent and applied across all closed prisons in the estate.

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