Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 April 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons

9:30 am

Ms Caron McCaffrey:

I do not have comparative figures with me. I will follow up on that point. As I mentioned earlier, many of the claims by prisoners relate to in-cell sanitation. We have received a significant number of in-cell sanitation claims and they account for many of the claims made by prisoners.

Unfortunately, our staff do become injured on duty. There are some slips, trips and falls but it is obviously a difficult environment. Our staff are required to break up altercations between prisoners and become injured while doing so. They are also, unfortunately, assaulted from time to time. The Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal is a specific scheme to deal with prison officers who have been-----