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 have a panel of 31 category A investigators in place at present. They generally investigate allegations of assault on prisoners by members of our staff. On the cost of payments, we pay €150 per day in that investigative process.