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

Mr. Michael Donnellan:

We have the first female acting campus governor in Portlaoise, Ethel Gavin, who was promoted last month. We also have a female governor in charge of the Dóchas women's prison. In addition, there is a female governor II at the West Dublin campus. More and more of our female staff are coming through.