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. Jimmy Martin:
The Minister is in favour of introducing targeted electronic monitoring. What is on the Statute Book since 2007 is indiscriminate electronic monitoring and we are saying that indiscriminate electronic monitoring is not cost-effective. Targeting is, and that is what we are planning to introduce.