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:
Community return is one. Another programme that we are looking at is the very important Red Cross programme. I must credit all of the Red Cross volunteers who work in the prisons in terms of Covid-19 because they have been central to our success.
We are engaging with the CSO to see if a person's engagement - training with Red Cross, acting as an advocate and a peer mentor within in a prison - has a positive impact. I can only imagine that it does when they go back to their communities.