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:
I was just going to add something. If it is helpful to the committee, I realise it has not had the report on the voluntary mess committees, VMCs for long, but one of the things that comes out of that is these VMCs are voluntary and run by volunteers in the prison service. These volunteers are not trained in administration and accounts, which is probably an explanation for what the Deputy is drawing attention to.