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 Oonagh McPhillips:

There are threads running between the two reports. There is also a separate process that I cannot go into. Between all that, the strong legal advice is that we cannot publish these reports at this time. We are examining them to see if there may be elements we can publish, because we do want this information in the public domain. We also want to implement the recommendations. We are not, however, in a position to publish the report at this time based on the legal advice.