Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 October 2025
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2024
Vote 21 - Prisons
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth - Programme E Expenditure
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 9 - Assessing Cyber Security in the Public Sector
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2024
Chapter 9 - Criminal Justice Operational Hubs
Chapter 10 - Management of International Protection Accommodation Contracts
2:00 am
Ms Caron McCaffrey:
I think we are doing an incredible job on the ground to keep everybody safe. Fortunately, we have seen a small reduction in prisoner-on-prisoner assaults and we have not witnessed any increase in prisoner-on-staff assaults. There is a very specific reason for that. We are not in a position to control the number of people in our custody but we have been augmenting the staff that are available on the landing and that has proved very successful in keeping people safe.
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