Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 17 January 2019
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons
9:00 am
Ms Caron McCaffrey:
There will be an increase in the number of beds within the CMH. The CMH will be replaced by the facility in Portrane and there will be an increase in the number of beds from 97 to 130. We are hopeful and we are engaging with the HSE on Irish Prison Service access to some of those beds.