Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I have had parliamentary question responses which show quite significant variation between prisons in the number of days the schools are open within the prison. I see separately that the Minister of State talks about additional costs because of greater prisoner numbers but also the significant cost of transporting people to and from court, and the effect that has on staffing rosters and the availability of staff to make sure that, for example, gyms and schools are open within prisons. We spoke with the head of the Prison Service both at the Committee of Public Accounts and at this committee about how staff were being allocated and managed to make sure those very important rehabilitative facilities were open.

Has this come up in conversations relating to preparing the Estimates?