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:

That is the very point, Deputy, we are trying to address to ensure that the elements of the criminal justice system do join up, and that we do have one common identifier for somebody who interfaces with the criminal justice system so that when they do turn up in some other element of the system they are known by that identifier. That is a very difficult thing to achieve even though it sounds easy. Strategically, this is where we want to go. We want to ensure that we can do that so that we have one view of the customer, if I can put it like that.