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:

We work very closely with the State Claims Agency. We have access to its national incident management system which allows us to generate reports at an organisational level, but also on a prison-by-prison level. We have a system in place with a compliance executive. We have health and safety co-ordinators in all our prisons and those reports are shared so that we can actively ensure we are learning lessons from those claims.