Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 5 November 2015

Public Accounts Committee

Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General 2014
Vote 21: Prisons
Vote 24: Department of Justice and Equality
Chapter 9: Development of Prison Accommodation in Dublin

10:00 am

Mr. Noel Waters:

The system was dealing with very difficult and very dangerous people. We had to have regard to the danger to the community. Sometimes we got it wrong and it was very difficult. As I said at the start, this was completely turning the entire criminal justice system on its head. All the work that was being done by everybody in the criminal justice system was being set at nought. People were back out on the street. We are nowhere near that.