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:
Our community support scheme is for people who serve sentences up to 18 months. The primary consideration is public safety. That is the factor that is taken into account. There is no specific maximum sentence a person needs to serve, but we would be looking at people who present a low risk to public safety and who are in for lower types of offences. For community return, that applies to people serving 18 months up to eight years. For people serving between two and five years, they can be released after half of their remitted sentence.
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