Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 2 February 2017
Public Accounts Committee
2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service
9:00 am
Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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The ratio is about 1:1.2 officers to prisoners, and I think internationally it is about 1:2.7. I may be corrected about that, but I think it is there or thereabouts. Is there a forum where prison services get together and discuss things? Is there a formal association?