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:

That responsibility is vested in our governor and management team. This year we will roll out a code of ethics. That code of ethics sets out the minimum behavioural standards we expect from everyone in the organisation, from me to every governor, director and manager within our service and every member of staff. I will be holding our governors and our directors to account to ensure they behave in accordance with that code of ethics. The governor will then be charged with ensuring that all the staff within his or her prison are held to account regarding-----