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:

We recently met some of our colleagues in Her Majesty's Prison Service to look at what they have done from a digitisation perspective, particularly in respect of in-cell technology to support learning and to support prisoners with mental health issues in accessing government services. We are planning a trip, along with some of our colleagues from the Department, to look at what has been done there and to see if we can build on what we have done during the Covid-19 pandemic. I certainly believe a central focus of our new strategy will be on ensuring the tools are available to prisoners within their cells.