Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 10 December 2020
Public Accounts Committee
2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons
Chapter 7 – Catering and Ancillary Services in Prisons
11:30 am
Ms Caron McCaffrey:
We have engaged with the Central Statistics Office, CSO, on that so we get statistics on recidivism. The CSO does quite a significant amount of work both the Irish Prison Service and the probation service. We have engaged with the CSO to look specifically at particular programmes and whether or not a prisoner's involvement in that programme has reduced reoffending.