Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 15 February 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons

9:30 am

Photo of Colm BurkeColm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Yes, I am sorry - my apologies - it is hepatitis C. It is a huge cost if we have to take a prisoner into a hospital setting for 12 weeks in a row, whereas I understand in one of the prisons in Dublin they have a comprehensive programme whereby all of the care is within the prison.

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