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:
Today, we have 574 people on temporary release. We have a number of schemes in place. Historically, when we had overcrowding back in the last 2000s, we just released people early. We now have schemes where we are releasing people with support. For people serving longer sentences, they swap prison time for Probation Service time and they have supports in the community. For people serving shorter sentences, they are linked in with NGOs.
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