Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 15 June 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:30 am

Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

There was a kind of residue of cell sanitation cases but I do not recall that they were being settled at that level. If members are seeking additional information, it might be useful to distinguish between claims by staff members and those by prisoners. There is a category in the appropriation account that reports prisoner claims arising out of injuries and other actions involving prisoners. That might be a useful way of understanding the nature of the claims.