Alan Farrell (Dublin Fingal, Fine Gael)
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I thank Ms McCaffrey. She touched upon the financial control issue in terms of procurement. There was a report on other operations of the service in, I believe, 2015. I am sorry, as I had the information in front of me a moment ago. The report was commissioned internally regarding the operation of various funds and programmes within the Irish Prison Service and a review was conducted. I will see if I can find the name of it in my documents, but it related to financial controls over the prison shop, the assisted programme fund and prisoner cash accounts. I would like to get some general information on that last item. I am intrigued as to how it can work efficiently or effectively from a cost perspective. Ms McCaffrey might be able to inform me. A review of how the service controls its financial affairs is ongoing. Ms McCaffrey might enlighten me on it, please.