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:

It is the maximum capacity pre-Covid. Unfortunately, because of Covid, we had to reduce the number of people in our workshops to ensure social distancing, but we are certainly now back to ensuring our workshops and schools have as many prisoners as can possibly be held within a work training activity or classroom.