Ms Caron McCaffrey:

A bank account is maintained specifically for prisoners' personal cash and is managed by our prison finance and estates directorate. That cash comprises the gratuity payments that a prisoner might receive while in custody as well as cash that might be left in by members of the prisoner's family to purchase items in our prison shops. As prisoners leave, they receive the balance of that personal cash from their accounts. At the end of 2017, the balance of the overall account stood at approximately €450,000.