Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 10 April 2019

Select Committee on Justice and Equality

Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Further Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Further Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Further Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Further Revised)
Vote 25 - Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Further Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Further Revised)

Photo of Clare DalyClare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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I will not open a discussion on it, but there is a crisis in that regard. Its continuation will result in further assaults on staff and probably deaths among prisoners who need help. If the recruitment of forensic psychiatrists has been sanctioned for years and they have not been recruited, there is a bigger problem. We will return to the matter again.