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:

Our education team were absolutely incredible and educational material was printed and dropped to every prisoner in every cell who required it. Our Red Cross volunteers also played a huge part, supported by our psychology service, in giving in-cell learning packs. While it might be the case that books were not available in certain prisons at certain times, there was a huge effort to provide material-----