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:

The Deputy will have to take into account that we had two of years of Covid, which has had an impact on many things. Obviously, everyone wants to get to the bottom of this issue. However, I do not believe that any inquiry is served by not having definition around it. That is the purpose of having a scoping exercise before one embarks on a more wide-ranging inquiry, if that is deemed appropriate.