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:
Let us consider it overall in terms of circular 40/2002 cases. In 2008, we had 187 exemptions under circular 40/2002 whereas today, we have 38. We are driving the figure down, but it will always be in or around that number. This is because the three elements I referred to will always be in play.