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:

The food is purchased directly and paid for by the mess committees. There is a mess committee in every prison. Given the environment in which our staff work and the long shifts, it is really important from a staff management and well-being perspective that we have those arrangements in place for staff.