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. Seamus McCarthy:

No, it was not specific. I think it was a general expectation that, going forward from the introduction of annualised hours, the expenditure would go down by €31 million per year.