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:
The Castlerea Prison project has already commenced. That will provide 150 spaces. Our next biggest project is a remand prison in Cloverhill. We are significantly increasing our capacity by over 200 there. We have plans to build again in Munster. We built a new Cork prison, as the Deputy will be aware, a number of years ago. We are going to extend our facilities there. We are planning to build in the Midlands Prison. Really, we are building right throughout our estate to maximise our capacity.
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