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

Mr. Derek Caldbeck:

On the car parking, there was one particular prison where the tuck shop officer went into town to source the products. Parking in the city cost approximately €6 per week or per delivery. He would have needed cash to go down and pay the car parking fee. That would previously have been paid from cash that was in the tuck shop by way of staff sales, which were actually removed in April 2019.