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
David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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If I can return to the point regarding prison infrastructure on page 27, I would make the point again that there was a correlation made between construction projects, renovations and so on and a reduction in staffing requirements. Did the Department or the Irish Prison Service have an eye on achieving a reduction in staffing requirements in the context of any capital spend from 2005 onwards? What was the total capital spend from 2005 to 2014? When looking at strategies and at what type of works were being done, how did that aim of reducing staffing requirements feed into that?