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
Josepha Madigan (Dublin Rathdown, Fine Gael)
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Looking at it objectively, without apportioning blame, from 2012 to 2015 there was an increase of €7 million, which is substantial but the contracts have increased from ten to 38. There seem to have been no efforts to minimise it.