Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 25 May 2023
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 24 – Justice
9:30 am
Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)
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On the Prison Service, some prisons provide a hepatitis C treatment programme over a period of eight or 12 weeks. In some cases people would be taken to a hospital setting to attend an outpatient clinic and, therefore, there is a huge cost issue because prison office staff must accompany prisoners, etc. I understand there was programme to roll out the treatment within prisons. Is the programme now available in all prisons?