Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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Okay.

Regarding the Prison Service, €56 million is estimated as being the outstanding liability on claims. That includes almost €13 million in respect of the Portlaoise campus alone.

There is a detailed breakdown of it, which shows that there are 22 staff member claims and 69 prisoner claims. There are 11 regarding property. From time to time, the Irish Prison Service representatives are in and we should continue to raise that with them. Some of that, staff would say, is down to not having adequate staff on some of the landings, particularly in some of the more high-security situations. We need to be mindful of that. There is nearly €13 million outstanding in claims alone in respect of Portlaoise and the Midlands Prison, which are on one campus. We will note and publish No. R2094.

I will move on to No. R2098, which is from John McKeon, Secretary General of the Department of Social Protection on 28 July. It provides information that we requested regarding the Department’s views on the data protection impact assessment, DPIA, with regard to the public services card, PSC. He gave us a fairly substantial reply. I propose that we note and publish this item of correspondence. Is that agreed? Agreed.

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